Peter Cummin, MLA
Monday, Jan. 5, 2009 at 3:30-4:30pm
Overland Park Convention Center (Courtyard Level) Meeting Room 4&5Title: Further Reflections on Integrating Landscape Design, Plant Selection, Installation and Maintenance … The Whole is Greater than the Sum of its Parts: The Theory and Practice of Garden-Making
Description: Peter Cummin, MLA reveals one landscape architect’s approach to residential landscape-design to make a house sit well upon the land. Creation of landscape space by sharing the land and reinforcing it with the selection of appropriate plant material with consideration of maintenance and environmental concerns, resulting in a house and garden that look as though it has always been there.
About the Speaker:
Cummin is an English-born landscape architect and horticulturist, who is principal of Cummin Associates, Inc., a design firm based in Stonington, Connecticut, which he founded in 1985. Cummin has designed residential and estate gardens in more than twenty-five states, Canada and the West Indies, working together with today’s top architects and interior designers. Cummin’s lifetime interest in horticulture and garden design, and his dedication to his clients prompts him to visit his projects often, even after gardens are completed. His current projects include gardens in Southampton, NY, Shelter Island, NY, Calabasas, CA, East Aurora, NY and Greenwich, CT.
Cummin’s gardens have been featured in Architectural Digest and House and Garden. He is a frequent lecturer for the Garden Club of America. He has taught in the Radcliffe Landscape Seminar Program and with leading horticulturists Michael Dirr, Ph.D. and Allan Armitage in their workshops for master gardeners. Cummin has his Bachelor’s Degree in horticulture and Master’s Degree in landscape architecture.