Asheville Botanical Garden Members-only!
Annual Meeting
Sunday, January 19, 2025, 2:00 – 4:00 pm
at the Asheville Botanical Garden Visitor Center
(snow date, Jan. 26)
Seating is limited and registration is required. REGISTER HERE!
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A short business meeting including elections will precede the presentation.
Members not attending may vote online using the link below through January 18, 2025.
Members-Only Vote: Asheville Botanical Garden Board Elections
The Nominating Committee presents Bill Jones (new), Gary Kauffman (new), Elaine Smyth (continuing) and Gwen Wisler (continuing) for election to the Board of Directors of Asheville Botanical Garden, Inc., and the following continuing Board members for election as Officers: President: Diane Puckett; Vice President: Matt Sprouse; Secretary: Deborah Breck; Treasurer: Bernard Arghiere.
Presentation by Preston Montague
Designing for the Experience: Composition in Practice
Choreographing experiences with designed plantings is a feat of art, science, and will. The old adage of “right plant, right place” applies to plant survivability of course, but can also apply to the way we arrange plants to encourage particular reactions from visitors. There’s an art to the design of an experience, and there are also simple tactics that can hasten decision-making and help organize a design process. For landscape architect, Preston Montague, those tactics come from composition he learned from an earlier practice as an artist. Join Preston for an examination of planting design strategies he deploys in his studio that are rooted in principles of composition.
Preston Montague is an artist and landscape architect working to strengthen relationships between people and the world around them. Particularly, the planted world. He runs an eponymous studio in Durham, North Carolina focusing on design projects that are horticulture-forward and rich in experiences.
