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Lecture By Landscape Designer Julie Moir Messervy

New England Landscape Design and History Association (NELDHA) and Massachusetts Horticultural Society (Mass Hort) are pleased to sponsor a lecture by award winning landscape designer Julie Moir Messervy at Elm Bank in Wellesley, Massachusetts on January 23, 2014 at 6:30p.m. Messervy, an entertaining and inspiring lecturer, will talk about her new book Landscaping Ideas That Work to be released on January 7, 2014.  A wine and cheese reception precedes the lecture at 5:30 p.m.  Books will be available for purchase and signing. 


Messervy is the designer of the award‐winning Toronto Music Garden, Weezie’s Garden at Mass Hort, Hidden Hollow at Heritage Museums & Gardens, as well as many other residential and institutional landscapes. She is the author of seven books on landscape design, including Home OutsideCreating the Landscape You Love  and Outside

the Not So Big House
 with Sarah Susanka. She is “The New Homestead” columnist for Organic Gardening magazine and was the popular

columnist of “Inspired Design” for Fine Gardening magazine. Messervy, is the principal of JMMDS in Saxtons River, Vermont, a landscape architecture and design firm. With their Home Outside online design service and Home Outside Palette app for iPhone and iPad, Messervy and JMMDS are pioneering new ways to bring good landscape design to homeowners everywhere.

Tickets purchased before January 10, 2014 are $20.00 or $15.00 for NELDHA/ Mass Hort members. After January 10, 2014, tickets will be $25.00 or $20.00 for NELDHA/Mass Hort members.  Tickets can be purchased online at  www.masshort.org or by mail. If purchasing by mail, send your check payable to ‘Massachusetts Horticultural Society’ with your email address and your membership affiliation (if applicable) and mail to: Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Attn: Maureen Horn, 900 Washington Street, Wellesley, MA 02482. For more information: Email: MHorn@Masshort.org or Info@NELDHA.org ; Telephone 617-933-4912 or 781-407-0065:  or visit www.MassHort.org or  www.Neldha.org.

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NELDHA and Mass Hort are 501(c)(3) organizations with missions relating to our landscape.

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