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January 2020
Tom Hanchett: From Independence to Myers Park: How John Nolen shaped Charlotte’s landscape
In 1905 a young student in the fledgling field of landscape architecture ducked out of his final exams at Harvard to take a train south to Charlotte. “First important landscape work” he wrote in his diary. That initial commission to design the city’s first public park, Independence Park, led John Nolen to create the Myers Park neighborhood — and nearly 400 other projects nationwide. Historian Dr. Tom Hanchett came to Charlotte in 1981 to research Myers Park and other older…
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Brad Miller, Care of Bonsai
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Vinnie Simeone, Great Gardens of the World
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Find out more »In Partnership with the Charlotte Garden Club, Wing Haven presents FIVE SEASONS: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf
Wing Haven and the Charlotte Garden Club invite you to join us at the Mint Museum Randolph for a film screening of FIVE SEASONS: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf, an immersive and meditative documentary that reveals how the revolutionary landscape designer, Piet Oudolf, upends our conventional notions of nature, public space, and, ultimately, beauty itself. Piet Oudolf has radically redefined what gardens can be. As Rick Darke, the famous botanist, says to Piet in the film, “your work teaches us…
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Gladys Hutson, Pollinators
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