Designing Low-Maintenance Landscapes with Native Plants

with Owen Wormser – Thurs, April 24, 7PM

Learn how to design unique garden spaces that strengthen your connection to the landscape around you. Discover important functional and aesthetic qualities of native plants that can provide the building blocks for creating easy-to-care-for, sustainable gardens. Using strategies based on the observation and emulation of naturally existing plant communities, landscape designer Owen Wormser will share key techniques for creating beautiful, low-maintenance garden spaces. In this interactive format, you are encouraged to bring your ideas, along with photographs, plans, or sketches of your own
property.

About Owen:

Owen was born and raised off the grid in rural Maine, surrounded by the presence of the natural world. That connection inspired Owen to pursue a career working with plants and design. He received a landscape architecture degree in 1998. Since then, he has gone on to design and build hundred of landscapes with a focus on sustainability, regeneration, and beauty.

Owen is the founder and principal of Abound Design, which provides landscape design and installation services in Western Massachusetts. He also co-founded a nonprofit, Local Harmony, that initiates and installs local landscape projects built entirely with volunteers and community support, including the gardens at the Hitchcock Center. The second edition of his first book, Lawns Into Meadows, Growing a Regenerative Landscape, was released in November, 2022.