MACDOWELL LANDSCAPE AND GARDENS

LOCATION: Peterborough, NH

PROJECT TIMELINE: 2001 - 2019

SCOPE OF WORK:  Site planning, detail site design, planting design, installation, and maintenance; project management and consultant coordination.  

TEAM: Emily Drury (head gardener and landscape designer), Reed Hilderbrand Associates (landscape architect, Baldwin Library), TWBTA (architect, Baldwin Library), K. Sweeney Construction (site work), Shelley Masonry (stone mason) 

PROJECT OVERVIEW:  Prior to founding Princess Pine, Emily designed, installed and maintained extensive naturalized ecological gardens around the central buildings of MacDowell, an artist residency program founded in 1907. These gardens replaced tens of thousands of square feet of lawn, creating wildlife habitat, year-round sensory interest to artists-in-residence and visitors, and connected the buildings to the surrounding woods and meadows. She also established edible plantings that provided the artists with fresh organic produce, including vegetables, berries, and stone fruit. Before Emily was hired in 2001, there had not been a gardener on staff since the 1950's.  In 2013, she collaborated with Reed Hilderbrand Associates and Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects on the Baldwin Library renovation and landscape.  

AWARDS: BSLA Merit Award for the Baldwin Library landscape