Christine Darnell

IN PERSON OR VIRTUAL PRESENTATIONS AVAILABLE

• Garden Design in a Time of Climate Change
• Color Your Garden:  Flowering Bulbs for Every Season
• (How to Be) An Artist in the Garden
• Extreme Weather Plants: 26 Perennials that Can Take the Heat
• Prairie Plants into the Home Garden
• Naturalistic Planting Design: Creating High-Impact and Low-Input Gardens
• Transform Your Garden With Native Plants

• Parson School of Design, B.F.A., (SUNY)
• Purchase College, MFA, Columbia University, M.S.

Additional Information:

Christine Darnell is a garden and landscape designer known for habitat-based, naturalistic plantings and outstanding planting combinations. Her firm Christine Darnell Gardens, specializes in mid to large-size residential landscapes, and offers all phases of design, installation and project management.

She teaches landscape design for the Connecticut Nursery and Landscape Association, and serves on the Inland Wetlands Conservation Committee for the town of Lyme, as well as the Building and Grounds Committee for the Florence Griswold Museum.

Christine often writes for Connecticut Gardener magazine and the New Haven Register. She has over 14 years of experience as a professional designer and horticulturist.