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Lets Gather to Celebrate the 9th Year of Our Chapter - Our Annual River City Wild Ones Movie and Popcorn Night! Date: Monday, February 16th at 7 pm (doors open at 6:30 pm) Location: Bunker Interpretive Center (BIC) 3201 Burton SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 Topic: Jens Jensen - The Living Green This dramatic story explores the life of Danish-born Jens Jensen who arrived in America in 1884 and rose from street-sweeper to the Dean of American Landscape Architecture. Inspired by nature, Jensens influence on the land helped pioneer the beginnings of the conservation movement and created what is now known as the Prairie School philosophy of design. This style would often consist of open spaces and pathways, which allowed one to stay in the shade while viewing the light. Not only did he use native plants in his designs, but natural materials too. Jens never created paths going in straight lines to their destinations; he disliked inorganic lines that connected places like they were nodes. He said of the vast formal gardens of France that men with little intellect and plenty of money who, for the sake of popularity, will turn their gardens into museums of freaks where even the stalwart moonshiner would hesitate to pass through at the midnight hour. His long career produced over 600 landscape designs for such notable clients as Henry Ford and Frank Lloyd Wright. Many of these gardens exist today and can be viewed at the historic sites of Greenfield Village and Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn. Other gardens around the country are now being restored due to the resurrection of his insightful plans. Jens Jensen was one of the most influential designers to popularize native gardens. He showed that not only could beautiful gardens have native species, but could have native species in their respective places as they would be without human integration or involvement. Please join us for this fascinating history which will be sure to inspire your own garden efforts! We will also take some time to discuss this years programs and projects and receive ideas/input from members.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 16:56:13 +0000

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