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UPCOMING SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTSJUNIOR LEAGUE OF L.A.October 2010 — By invitation only “A Journey with Laura Morton”Just where do designers get their inspiration? Award-winning landscape designer Laura Morton will take us on a journey, collecting ideas from Andalusia, Morocco, and early California style to develop a new, sustainable landscape for a 1934 Spanish Colonial Revival style home in Los Angeles. Witness its own revival as a new design enhances the original architecture and expands the living spaces outdoors. |
EDUCATION
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2002–present |
Los Angeles Arboretum:
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1997–2002 |
Los Angeles Arboretum:
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1995–1996 |
Los Angeles Arboretum:
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1996–1998 |
UCLA:
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1996–1999 |
UCLA: |
Landscape Artist Laura Morton,
APLD
Professional Background
AWARDS & CERTIFICATES
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April 2010 |
Association of Professional Landscape Designers
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May 2009 |
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August 2008 |
Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD)
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1998 |
UCLA
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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
Association of Professional Landscape Designers
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President of the APLD,
Greater Los Angeles District
About APLD® CertificationThe APLD certification program provides professional recognition to landscape designers, based on established standards of excellence. This process encourages self-assessment by offering guidelines for achievement. Certification is available for Associate APLD members in good standing, who have been practicing landscape design for a minimum of four years. The certification process is not an education curriculum per se. It is designed to evaluate the candidate’s submitted work, consisting of three installed projects and requiring drawings, plant list, design intent statement, and photographs. To encourage certified members to continue their education, the APLD requires recertification every three years, with 30 contact hours of continuing education credit. |
ARCHIVE OF PAST SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
L.A. Garden Show 2010
(at the Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden)
Garden Chat: “California Got the Gold, Silver & Bronze...and It’s All Green!”
What isn’t to love about the native plant communities of Southern California or the many ways we can design our landscape for outdoor living all year long? They don't call it the Golden State for nothing. So Cal has a natural and distinctive color palette of golden oranges and yellows, luminous silver and shimmery greens, and the deepest mahogany-bronze bark and seedpods, not to mention a complete range of blue tones.
Join award-winning professional landscape designer Laura Morton, APLD, for an eye-opening discourse on designing outdoor spaces and landscapes with a distinctly West Coast aesthetic.
Theodore Payne Foundation
“Design Fundamentals for Native Plant Gardens”
Join award-winning landscape designer Laura Morton on a journey of transformation. Witness the process as she converts a traditional Los Angeles home garden with classic lawn and foundation plantings into a stunning exterior of usable spaces, incorporating California natives and a meadow. Laura's holistic approach to landscape design considers all aspects of sustainability without compromising on ambiance or beauty.
Compulsive Gardeners Class, L.A. County Arboretum
“Finding the Balance in Design: What He Wants, What She Wants — and Bringing It Together”
Landscape Designer Laura Morton discusses her design journey and inspiration as her presentation of exceptional photographs takes you to Greece and Morocco while developing a design for a couple with very different tastes. The result is outstanding.
Compulsive Gardeners Class, L.A. County Arboretum
“A Cinderella Story: A Garden Goes from Rags to Riches”
Witness Designer Laura Morton’s transformation from start to finish of a small bleak backyard into an exotic Oasis in Hollywood fit for a Queen. If you have never hired a designer, this story unveils the mystery of this designer’s process from the first client meeting, through installation, to the perfect, finished project.
This talk was also presented to:
- Weeders & Diggers Garden Club of Pasadena
- South Coast Plaza Garden Show
- Los Angeles Garden Show
The Garden Conservancy — Gardens of the Mind, 2007
“The Sacred Core: Oases in Urban Environments”
Artist/designer Laura Morton creates gardens that transcend daily life. Drawing upon her travels and background training in landscape architecture, photography, jewelry design, and horticulture, she transforms the elements into visual and sensual experiences. Laura shares her process as designer and “matchmaker”’ between nature’s raw power and man’s yearning for order and beauty on earth.