Zoom Meeting. Open to members only.

Non members: please email to GCLAmembership@gmail.com if interested to attend

Our May speaker is Dave Sauter, professor of environmental horticulture and design at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills. He will show us the thinking and sketching that goes into designing a garden. If you would like to submit a landscape problem from your own yard or a friend's, please submit an illustration of the problem(s) to be solved and, as clearly and succinctly as possible, in a written description to program chair, Grace Tsang as soon as possible. Only 1 or 2 submissions can be dealt with in this talk because the intent is to show the process from conception to schematic and to show the principles which can guide us to a successful design.

Dave is a registered Landscape Architect in California. Prior to his teaching career, Mr. Sauter practiced as a consulting landscape architect in the Midwest. He has additional experience in plant maintenance, plant installation, landscape construction, masonry, carpentry, paving, and landscape management and has presented seminars for the nursery industry, master gardeners, extension services and public service organizations. David Sauter earned his BS in Landscape Architecture at Iowa State University and his MA in Higher Education from The University of Iowa. He is the author of two books, Landscape Construction and Plan It, Dig It, Build It!, and has designed local landscapes since moving to California.

Grace Tsang, Vice President & Program Chair