Invite for young landscape designers
If you are a young landscape or architectural professional — or know of one — who has a project that leans toward traditional design, the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art wants to know about it.
The New Yorkbased nonprofit organization has just announced that submissions are welcome for the 2022 Bunny Mellon Landscape Design Prize.
Mellon was an accomplished gardener and philanthropist (and Listerine heiress) who designed a number of important gardens, including the White House Rose Garden.
Last year’s winner was Alexandra Bolinder-Gibsand for Christine London Ltd. for her landscape design of a Los Angeles property with dramatic canyon views. It was the first year the prize was awarded.
Her garden design, created to complement a newly built home, was notable to the jury of experts for its sensitivity to the surrounding land and the climate, and that it incorporates multiple garden rooms, native plantings and low water use features.
According to the announcement, this prize recognizes “the excellence and creativity of projects from landscape or architectural design professionals whose work is inspired by classical or traditional design, holistically considers the symbiosis between outdoor environments and physical structures, and interweaves garden and architectural elements within their design.”
Submissions do not have to be completed projects; they can be conceptual or in-progress ones, student projects, architectural projects with a landscape element or a landscape project with an architectural element.
Entries are due by Dec. 15 and are open to entrants who are 35 years old or younger by Dec. 31 or are within the first seven years of their relevant design career.
A panel of industry professionals will judge entries and one winner will receive $1,500 along with paid travel expenses for a weekend to Atlanta, where the winner will be recognized in April at the Bunny Mellon Curricula Weekend Seminar.
Send in your project that
best showcases your talents and the Marin and Sonoma landscape. Good luck!
For details, go to classicist.org/landscape-prize.
Safe gardening
Just in time for fall and winter pruning, there’s a new waterproof bandage to help keep you safe if you get scratched or punctured in the garden, around the house or practically anywhere else.
According to DrySee, which makes the bandage, “the average cloth or plastic bandage provides some protection, but it is still easy for dirt and water to reach a wound and, even if it’s a waterproof bandage, it’s hard to see if it’s actually sealed.”
DrySee offers a waterproof, sterile, latex-free, breathable alternative for when more reliable wound protection and water blockage is needed.
Apparently, if water or other liquids make their way into the DrySee bandage, a liquid-indicating gauze along the perimeter of the bandage will turn a dark blue color. Fluid from the wound site will cause the internal pad to also change color, alerting the user that a bandage change is necessary.
It also could help reduce infection.
“DrySee comes in a variety of sizes and starts at $19.99 for a six-pack of 2-inch square bandages. It’s available on Amazon and online through DrySee at drysee.com.
Show off
If you have a beautiful or interesting Marin garden or a newly designed Marin home, I’d love to know about it.
Please send an email describing either one (or both), what you love most about it, and a photograph or two. I will post the very best ones in upcoming columns. Your name will be published and you must be over 18 years old and a Marin resident.