Darrel G. Morrison
Landscape Architect, Author, Lecturer
Member since: 2013
Proposed by: Ulster Garden Club, Zone III
Darrel Morrison is a landscape architect, teacher, author and passionate advocate for the use of native plants. He views a landscape as something that is natural, fitting and unique, not imposed. Mr. Morrison, best known for his prairie-inspired gardens, has worked throughout the United States designing native plant landscapes at distinguished institutions such as: Lady Bird Johnson Center, Austin, Texas; Chicago Botanic Garden, MacDonald Woods native trail system; University of Wisconsin Arboretum, Native Plant Garden; Storm King Art Center, restoration of native meadow grasses; New York Botanical Garden, landscape plan for the restoration of the Old Stone Mill; and, most recently (June, 2013), Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Native Flora Garden extension.
Mr. Morrison has served on the faculties of the University of Georgia (School of Environmental Design) and the University of Wisconsin (Landscape Architecture Department).He was the keynote speaker at the 2010 Shirley Meneice Conference. His primary areas of interest include: *Landscape Architecture * Horticulture and Native Plants and *Education.
He is a currently a Senior Honorary Faculty Associate in the Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The Library of American Landscape History will be releasing a book Darrel has authored, entitled "Beauty of the Wild" in early 2021. It is part memoir and part a recounting of Landscape Design work that Darrel has done during his late career, 1990-present.
Honorary Member since 2013.
