Patrick Chassé

Member since: 2011

A former faculty member of Arnold Arboretum and Harvard University and the first Curator of Landscape at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Patrick Chassé is a distinguished landscape architect, respected horticultural speaker, writer, and teacher. He has designed and assisted numerous organizations in creating gardens of the past as well as present in private and public spaces. Mr. Chassé has been at the forefront in the promotion and use of native plants which have had an educational as well as conservation value to northern New England and its barrier islands. He is well known for his reconstruction of natural plant communities and designs of new gardens from Mt. Desert Island, Maine to Istanbul Turkey. His extensive travels have enabled him to lecture nationally and internationally while sharing his great knowledge of garden history, botany, climate, plant interdependence, and invasive plants. Honorary Member since 2011.