The Association of Professional Landscape Designers - Midwest Region

 

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  Prairie and Natural Landscapes will provide designers expanded references for this unique segment.

Reach Midwest APLD members via the APLD membership directory.  Some of the most talented landscape designers in the Midwest are our members.  You can be completely confident in excellent results when choosing an APLD Certified Landscape Designer.

Additional information on the landscape design profession and some online resources used in the industry are available below.  Numerous educational opportunities are available to achieve professional credit.

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Articles
Sketching - its importance to design (Spring  2008)
Bagworm as a Landscape Pest (Winter 2008)
Leadership: Living a Dream (Lawn & Landscape 2007)
Ten Unusual Annuals (Fine Gardening)
Designing with Dwarf Conifers (Fine Gardening)
Chicago's Millennium Park

Architects / Landscape Architecture Firms
Brickman
Terry Guen Design Associates (Millennium Park)

Books
Gardening with Conifers By Adrian Bloom
Great Flowering Landscape Shrubs By Vincent A. Simeone
IPM (Integrated Pest Management) of Midwest Landscapes By
Vera Krischik, University of Minnesota and John Davidson, University of Maryland
Manual of Woody Landscape Plants By Michael A. Dirr
Outside the Not So Big House By Julie Moir-Messervy and Sarah Susanka

Out of the Shadows By
Rinda West
Perennial Reference Guide by Nicole Lloyd and Karleen Shafer, 2007 

Education
American Academy of Landscape Design
 Short, intensive courses that meet a few times over the course of a year
APLD
 Online courses and links to many college programs
Ball State University, Muncie, IN
Chicago Botanic Garden - Events Listing
 Meeting a wide range of educational needs and desires
College of DuPage - Glen Ellyn, IL
College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL
Harper College, Palatine,  IL
Iowa State University, Ames, IA
McHenry County College, Crystal Lake, IL
Morton Arboretum
 Meeting a wide range of educational needs and desires
Northwestern University
Purdue University - West Lafayette, IN
Triton College, River Grove, IL
University of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign, IL
University of Wisconsin - Madison, WI

Industry Organizations
All American Rose Selections
American Conifer Society
American Horticultural Society
American Nursery & Landscape Association
American Society of Landscape Architects
Garden Conservancy
Garden Writers Association of America
IL Nurserymen's Association
Illinois Arborist Assoc.
Illinois Landscape Contractors Association
Indiana Nursery & Landscape Association
International Society of Arboriculture
Irrigation & Green Industry Network
Michigan Nursery & Landscape Association
Midwest Ecological Association
National Gardening Association
Ornamental Growers Assn. of Northern IL
Perennial Plant Association

Magazines
Chicagoland Gardening
Fine Gardening
Horticulture

Newsletters
APLD Midwest - 2006
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Previous Issue

Landscape Management
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Other
IL Pesticide Safety Education & Licensing Info
IRS Small Business/Self-Employed Resource
State of IL Business Service Center

Plants and Landscape
Chicago Botanic Garden's Plant Evaluation Database
Great Plant Picks
Landscape Plants of Upper Midwest
Longwood Gardens
National Arboretum Plant Hardiness Zone Map
National Plant Database
New York Botanic Garden
Prairies and Natural Landscapes
U of IL Extension Services-Hort Page

Michigan State University - Ornamental Plants Database
Minnesota Sustainable Plants Database

 

 

APLD Midwest members are highly qualified professional designers who can assist you in the production of a quality, enduring landscape. 

Each is experienced and uniquely qualified to handle your Midwestern landscape needs.

Whether your concern is environmental, monumental, privacy or smaller in scale, you will find just the right professional landscape designer for your needs.

 


In the Washington D.C. area, designer Jane Berger, APLD was  called upon to “update” an existing garden.

This project had an existing pool and brick walkways, but it was definitely due for some refinements. All the client asked for was “something that looks pretty.”

An old walkway was ripped up, replaced with a new one, along with new plantings that included knockout roses, crape myrtles, catmint, golden creeping jenny and boxwood.

 

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