HOME OUTSIDE: Creating the Landscape You Love
In this inspiring lecture, award-winning landscape designer and author Julie Moir Messervy demystifies the art and practice of landscape design for homeowners and professionals alike. Using beautiful images, together with helpful tips, case studies, befores and afters, diagrams, and plans, she walks you through the process of turning any property into the “home outside” you’ve always dreamed of. Julie highlights many of the ideas introduced in her newest book, Home Outside: Creating the Landscape You Love, illustrating that good landscape design does not have to be overwhelming or expensive. (1-1.5 hours)
OUTSIDE THE NOT SO BIG HOUSE: Creating the Landscape of Home
This stimulating presentation by author and noted landscape designer Julie Moir Messervy is based on the book of the same name that she wrote with Not So Big author and architect Sarah Susanka. In it, Julie reveals how to bring house and garden into perfect harmony by giving you the design principles needed to extend the presence of home onto the land. She divides the talk into four parts: embracing the habitat of home; composing journeys; linking the inside with the out; and crafting the elements of nature. Her talk is full of fascinating ideas and images of beautiful and doable landscapes. (1-1.5 hours)
HEARING THE STREAM…WITH OPEN EYES: Designing Relevant and Stimulating Landscapes in the Digital Age
Are designed landscapes—those created and crafted by landscape professionals—losing relevance in today’s digital age? Julie Moir Messervy believes that they will if designers don’t try harder to help get people outside again. The author of six books on landscape design, a noted lecturer, and an award-winning designer, Julie has spent her thirty-five-year career inspiring—through her award-winning design work—and educating—through her numerous articles, her blog, and her six books on landscape design, along with hundreds of lectures. Illustrating her points with her studio’s wide-ranging public and private projects, Ms. Messervy explains the five paths she’s taken to help homeowners and professionals to “hear the stream with open eyes.” (1-1.5 hours)
INSPIRED BY BACH: The Music Garden
Celebrated landscape designer Julie Moir Messervy completed the award-winning Toronto Music Garden in 1999–a collaboration with renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the City of Toronto. A three-acre public park based on the “First Suite for Unaccompanied Cello” by Johann Sebastian Bach, curving paths move visitors through six garden “movements” that flow from the different moods evoked by the music. In this inspiring lecture, Julie explores the relationship between music and garden design, and how the aesthetic and structural elements in the music influenced her garden vision and her ultimate design choices. (1-1.5 hours)
Messervy and the Toronto Music Garden are the subject of the Emmy award-winning PBS film, “Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired by Bach: The Music Garden.” In 2005, the Toronto Music Garden received a Leonardo Da Vinci award for innovation and creativity.
GARDENS AND SPIRITUALITY
Contemplate the transcendent power of landscape as seen through the eyes of award-winning landscape designer and author Julie Moir Messervy. Julie explores the deeply personal process of designing a beautiful landscape and reveals how spirituality can inform garden design and the landscapes we create on the earth. (1-1.5 hours)
