Olds College Gardens (and a Landscape workshop)

Yesterday Tara, Sona & I attended a workshop on sustainable landscape design as part of the Hort Week continuing education courses offered at Olds College. The workshop, Sustainable Residential Landscape Design, with Angela Sommers, was excellent. It was the more indepth course related to the earlier webinar we attended in the winter as part of Olds College Winter Speakers series. The first part of the workshop was an interactive lecture on landscape styles, garden shapes, sustainability of residential design, issues with sustainability for new home building, the benefits of ordering local plantings, composting, rain water gathering, and much more. The second part of the course was the actual design workshop where we worked on a sustainable landscape design for our own homes. After the workshop, the three of us toured the gardens at the college. How beautiful! And what an excellent day! Check out the photos of Olds College flowers...