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UPCOMING SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTSDwell on Design Conference
Saturday, June 22, 2013 • 12:30 p.m. “Beautiful Landscapes — Inside and Out”We believe the most successful landscapes are designed to be gorgeous, functional, and sensitive to the environment. A beautifully designed landscape increases property value and enhances quality of life; and when that design also reduces runoff and ocean pollution, restores soil fertility, and provides habitat for all who enter, there’s a deeper, harmonious connection to nature. That’s a great feeling. Join two award-winning landscape visionaries, Laura Morton and Pamela Berstler, who understand and will share the value of landscapes that are beautiful inside and out. This dynamic duo will change the way you look at landscapes. Laura Morton, APLD, is past president of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers, California chapter. Pamela Berstler serves as president this year. Come get inspired.
CEU Credit: .15 CEUs (APLD)
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EDUCATION
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Los Angeles Arboretum:
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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
Association of Professional Landscape Designers
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President and Membership Chair of the California Chapter of APLD,
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Featured on the May 2011 APLD
Member of the Month page
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. |
Landscape Artist Laura Morton,
APLD
Professional Background
AWARDS & CERTIFICATES
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Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD)
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Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD)
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UCLA
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ARCHIVE OF PAST SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Thursday Garden Talks with Lili Singer-Spring
(at the Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden)
“Living in the Garden, California Style”
This richly illustrated talk will get you thinking differently about your outdoor spaces, describe key elements of good design, and showcase such key garden elements as hardscape, fire, water, dining, and play.
Laura Morton is an award-winning certified landscape designer. Drawing upon her travels and training in landscape architecture, photography, jewelry design, and horticulture, she creates magical, usable, value-enhancing spaces to be used year-round.
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.
310.230.5622 • lm@lauramortondesign.com
