Events

See a native garden in an urban setting!

Wild Ones members and their guests are invited as a membership perk. Members will be emailed the address a few days before the event.

Bernie, is a Master Gardener with extensive gardening experience at his former home in Portland, OR. As part of his “extreme landscape makeover” he engaged the services of a landscape architect, Rebecca Marquardt, who championed the creation of beautiful landscapes containing mostly native plants. Bernie’s design sensibilities and amateur woodworking skills, especially in outdoor garden structures, made a nice complement when working together. They found they shared many ecological, aesthetic, and urbanist values and have continued to work together ever since in creating beautiful and ecologically sustainable landscapes.

Rebecca and Bernie share an affinity for the New Urbanist movement. Serendipitously, they also shared a high regard for, and had independently been inspired by, the work of the world-renowned Dutch plantsman, Piet Oudolf, who was the lead designer for the Lurie Garden in Chicago, the High Line in New York City, and most recently the eponymous “Oudolf Garden Detroit” on Belle Isle Park.

They also share the value that, as much as landscapes and the gardens within them ought to provide native habitat for birds, butterflies, and bees, as with any good architecture, their primary purpose is to promote and engender human flourishing.

The progress of Bernie’s garden has been well documented with a photo album over the years, and he along with Rebecca Marquardt, will be on hand to answer questions.