FRI-C05: Getting into the Weeds: Design, Planting, and Maintenance of Glenstone’s Ecological Landscape

Friday, November 11, 2022

1:30pm – 3:00pm PT

Location: Moscone Center, Room 213-214

1.50 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AICP, ISA, 1 GBCI SITES AP, FL, NY/HSW

Lead Speaker(s)

Adam Greenspan, ASLA, FASLA

Design Director
PWP Landscape Architecture
Berkeley, California

Speaker(s)

Larry Weaner, Affil. ASLA

Ecology-Based Landscape Designer
Larry Weaner Landscape Associates
Glenside, Pennsylvania
Matthew Partain

Landscape Superintendent
Glenstone Foundation
Poolesville, Maryland

This session addresses the design process that began at Glenstone in 2003 and evolved into an ongoing collaboration between people and living systems. The panel will describe how landscape architects, native plant consultants, and an organic-oriented in-house team achieved the ecologically diverse and vibrant landscape that continues to evolve today.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate what can be achieved because of collaboration between consultants and owners with diverse specialties.
2. Understand how design intent may change and be realized over a long period of time.
3. Gain insight into conceiving living systems and change as part of a landscape design focused on both performance and aesthetics.
4. Understand the difficulties and successes of an organic maintenance regime and how that relates to ideas of sustainability and “low maintenance.”