Larry Weaner
Landscape Design and Restoration
Member since: 2015
Proposed by: The Garden Club of Philadelphia, Zone V
Seconded by: Wissahickon Garden Club, Zone V
In 1982 Larry Weaner founded Larry Weaner Landscape Associates a nationally-recognized firm providing landscape design and restoration services for private residences, businesses, and public facilities in over 20 states and the U.K., where he designed an American Prairie Garden for the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Wakehurst. In 1990 he founded New Directions in the American Landscape (NDAL), an annual conference and workshop series dedicated to advancing the art and science of natural landscape design and in 2016 NDAL received the first Regional Impact Award from the Native Plant Trust (formerly the New England Wildflower Society). In 2021, the American Horticultural Society (AHS) awarded Larry their Great American Gardener's Award. Larry also authored Garden Revolution: How Our Landscapes Can Be a Source of Environmental Change with Tom Christopher (Timber Press, 2016). Their book received a 2017 Book Award from the American Horticultural Society.
Larry is the driving force behind this new way of thinking about our landscapes from meadows to woodlands, bogs and roadsides. Using native plants to re-establish a healthy ecosystem is at the core of all his work. He has common sense suggestions for taming invasive plants while enhancing the environment for our natives. As a tireless lecturer and GCA national speaker, Larry has spoken to GCA clubs and at the Shirley Meneice Horticulture Conference in 2013 as well as at a 2014 Zone IV Meeting hosted by the Englewood Garden Club.
Larry's thought-provoking protocols address the natural colonizing abilities of native plants. It is clear that his body of work contributes to the advancement of horticulture and ecological landscape in our country.
Honorary Member since 2015.
