Camilla Landscape Design News & Views

One of the best ways to brighten up a shady corner is with a planting of colorful garden Impatiens, Impatiens Walleriana.

Late in the season last year, however, garden Impatiens everywhere were affected by a disease called Downy Mildew. Wind-blown spores infected plants in many parts of the country. While it is too early to tell whether Downy Mildew will be a problem again this year, we will play it safe by planting alternates such as Coleus, New Guinea Impatiens, Browalia, Torenia, and Begonia in your gardens and containers.

For further information on Downy Mildew, you can visit this site: http://extension.umass.edu/floriculture/fact-sheets/impatiens-downy-mildew

In October 2011, samples of boxwoods with unusual symptoms were submitted to The Plant Disease Information Office of the Experiment Station for diagnosis. Symptoms included leaf spots and blights, rapid defoliation, distinctive black cankers on stems, and severe dieback.

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This Course is for any land care professional or enthusiast interested in learning the ecology and care of residential yards, using products and methods which are sustainable and safe. In over ten years, this course has been shared with over 1200 students!

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“Feed the soil and not the plant” is a basic premise of organic lawn care. Lawns growing on healthy soil need less water and fertilizer

The preservation of our environment through thoughtful gardening will be the focus of the Bridgewater/Roxbury garden club in March, featuring organic landscape designer Camilla Worden and her presentation Landscaping for a Sustainable Environment.

With over 20 years experience in landscape design, Ms. Worden has a BA in chemistry from Rutgers University and an MBA from NYU.  Working through her company, Camilla Landscape Design LLC, she is committed to promoting organic and ecologically sensitive practices and holds a Landscape Design Certificate from The New York Botanical Garden.  A member of the Ecological Landscapers Association, she is on the board of the Danbury Land Trust, and on the Organic Land Care advisory board of NOFA, an organization that is dedicated to strengthening ecologically sound farming and gardening. Her recent accomplishments include an award-winning ecological redesign of a corporate park in Purchase, NY and a lakeside buffer planting for the Lake Kenosia Commission in Danbury.

Gardening is now the most popular hobby in the country and it is Camilla Worden’s strong belief that gardeners who love and appreciate nature are in the best position to contribute to the slowing of global climate change.  ”Sustainable is attainable”, she urges, “if we shift our focus from gardening to earth stewardship.  What we do in our own backyards will make a difference”.  She will offer strategies and practical tips to help everyone learn how to preserve the environment for future generations and create more than just a pretty garden.

Ms. Worden’s talk will take place at St. Mark’s Church Hall in Bridgewater, CT on March 14 at 11 am.

The preservation of our environment through thoughtful gardening will be the focus of The Garden Club of Newtown in October, featuring organic landscape designer Camilla Worden and her presentation Landscaping for a Sustainable Environment.

With over 20 years experience in landscape design, Ms. Worden has a BA in chemistry from Rutgers University and an MBA from NYU.  Working through her company, Camilla Landscape Design LLC, she is committed to promoting organic and ecologically sensitive practices and holds a Landscape Design Certificate from The New York Botanical Garden.  A member of the Ecological Landscapers Association, she is on the board of the Danbury Land Trust, and on the Organic Land Care advisory board of NOFA, an organization that is dedicated to strengthening ecologically sound farming and gardening. Her recent accomplishments include an award-winning ecological redesign of a corporate park in Purchase, NY and a lakeside buffer planting for the Lake Kenosia Commission in Danbury.

Gardening is now the most popular hobby in the country and it is Camilla Worden’s strong belief that gardeners who love and appreciate nature are in the best position to contribute to the slowing of global climate change.  ”Sustainable is attainable”, she urges, “if we shift our focus from gardening to earth stewardship.  What we do in our own backyards will make a difference”.  She will offer strategies and practical tips to help everyone learn how to preserve the environment for future generations and create more than just a pretty garden.

Ms. Worden’s talk will take place in the Olga Knoepke meeting room on the first floor of the Cyrenius H. Booth Library on October 23 at 1pm. There is a guest fee of $5 for non-members of the club and the public is encouraged to attend.  Registration is not required.  For more information call 203 512-7320.

Ginnie Carey, Publicity Chairman, The Garden Club of Newtown

30 Platts Hill Road, Newtown, 203 512-7320 or ginniecarey@att.net

Changing the method of treating a lawn is the first thing a company might think to do when deciding to go organic. But lawn care isn’t the only way you can become more organic. Design/build companies can also become more environmentally conscious in the plans they propose to customers. Camilla Warden, owner of Camilla Landscape Design in Brookfield Conn., thinks organic in her design plans. She is a member of the Northeast Organic Farming Association, an organization that teaches organic is more of a system.

Read More: http://www.lawnandlandscape.com/bionutrition-081012-design-details.aspx?List_id=368

DANBURY — The day was sunny and a gentle breeze carried strains of string music during the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Lake Kenosia Buffer Garden.

Some 100 people turned out Saturday to tour the lake by kayak and canoe and walk along the buffer and rain gardens.

Read more: http://www.newstimes.com/local/article/Lake-buffer-garden-comes-to-life-3680120.php#ixzz23dgInePf

The mild days before Christmas were a chance for Camilla Worden to work on making a dry streambed and rain garden on her Brookfield property.

“It’s creating something that’s attractive and functional,” she said, explaining that stormwater runoff from her roof is now diverted into a dry streambed in her yard, where plants and rocks slow it down.

Read more: http://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Landscaper-is-accredited-in-organic-land-care-2498242.php#ixzz1jxDrXtUp

Brookfield resident Camilla Worden, accredited organic land care professional, brings organic sustainable practices to landscaping. Read the rest of the article.