User Rating
You are not logged in. Please login to review this user.
Deer-Resistant Garden Design
On a cold and wintry February day, Karen transported nearly 400 fortunate Zoom participants to a world of beauty, peace, and hope. A wonderful gift during these times of Covid-19. The topic was Deer-Resistant Garden Design, where the design, not the plants, was the all-important feature in limiting deer damage. With gorgeous photos and witty talk, she outlined her eight key design principles and showcased the pleasing results. They ranged from hardscaping, using focal points, choosing effective color palettes, planting in layers, optimizing foliage, utilizing deer-resistant plants (which do not come with a guarantee!), avoiding monocultures, and building deer-barriers with plant materials. It was loaded with design information as well as horticultural information, with practical advice on how to protect your vegetable garden and when and how to spray when needed. All in hour that went so fast. This program was offered by the Community Education Committee of Rutgers Master Gardeners of Mercer County. What an educational and entertaining treat for our members and the public. Karen made it a huge success, and we look forward to working with her in person one of these days.
Deer Resistant Design
In this time of COVID, Karen reached across the US to us in NJ and gave an inspiring and informative online program on designing a gorgeous garden despite the deer. Filled with practical advice and stunning plant choices, the lecture was nonetheless advice on how to achieve a dream garden through intelligent design, compromise and strategies to discourage deer. Engaging and educational, she also displayed a dry wit and humor when underscoring successes and failures when dealing with the wildlife scourge of we NJ gardeners. We loved her program. One attendee commented that it is the best virtual program she has seen to date! Highly recommend Karen!!
Captivating presentation
Last night, I attended Karen's presentation, Creating Captivating Gardens, via Zoom for the virtual Cabin Fever Gardening Symposium. Karen's eye-catching photographs and her spot-on insights into successful landscape design features inspired me. Her observations on the elements that create beauty and intrigue in a garden were just what I needed as I take a more critical look at the landscape my husband and I have created over the years. It was such a joy to see so many pleasing examples of what "works" in special gardens around the world. Karen's presentation was smooth, flowed well, stayed on-topic, and her delivery was extremely enjoyable. Even though this was a Zoom presentation, she did a wonderful job of engaging her audience by asking to respond when she asked a question about experiences members of the audience had. I have been to several of Karen's presentations in the past and they never disappoint!
Inspiring and Wonderful
It was a true joy to have the opportunity to work with Karen Chapman we transitioned her previously scheduled in-person lecture and workshops to live, virtual events through Zoom Webinar. Her experience and skill as a public speaker translated to a virtual format beautifully, and I learned so much through our collaboration on this project. We received an outpouring of positive feedback following the lecture and classes, and this email summarized those sentiments best:
"Just wanted to say thank you for hosting the lecture last night. It was splendid and so enjoyable...Please know how inspiring and helpful I found it to be a part of the zoom presentation. Looking forward to more, almost felt like normal for a short time! I will be so much more mindful of color, texture and combinations for arrangements and plantings in my garden. Wonderful!!"
Karen made her lecture and workshops a meaningful experience for everyone involved.
"Just wanted to say thank you for hosting the lecture last night. It was splendid and so enjoyable...Please know how inspiring and helpful I found it to be a part of the zoom presentation. Looking forward to more, almost felt like normal for a short time! I will be so much more mindful of color, texture and combinations for arrangements and plantings in my garden. Wonderful!!"
Karen made her lecture and workshops a meaningful experience for everyone involved.
Gardening with Deer in mind
Karen is a great speaker, clear, practical, funny, and knowledgeable. Great pictures of gardens from around the country accompany the discussion. If you get a chance, take a listen and don't forget to buy her books.
Deer Resistant Design
I had the pleasure of working with Karen to present this topic in a webinar format. In order to have the best experience for our attendees, she made sure that we "practiced" several times to iron out any kinks. The presentation went flawlessly, on October 7, 2020. Karen is an engaging and interactive speaker, even on Zoom. The topic was fresh and her most recent book, Deer Resistant Design, is a treasure.
Foliage and Focal Points
Very informative presentation with varied and stunning examples of gardens, garden vignettes to illustrate the concepts presented.
Design Dilemmas & Savvy Solutions
Karen is both an exceptional speaker and a pleasure to work with for an event planner. This talk was presented to green industry professionals and received fantastic reviews from attendees. She presented solid, actionable information that professional landscape designers can use to improve client relationships and navigate tricky design scenarios.
Fantastic Foliage and Focal Points!
Karen is one of my all time favorite speakers, and in normal times I always plan to attend her programs at the Washington State Flower & Garden Show. Her presentation to the Mukilteo Way Garden Club this week was a perfect combination of knowledge and concepts well illustrated with beautiful images. Very engaging and inspirational!
The Squish Factor
Karen joined our conference presentation team as an emergency replacement one week before our event. She not only filled in, she 'knocked it out of the park'! We had over 300 attendees on a Zoom Webinar...Karen's presentation was professional, interesting and inspirational. Thanks so much for your enthusiastic support and top notch presentation.
New to me — and FABULOUS
This speaker previously unknown to me, was fabulous. She was a last minute emergency replacement at the 2021 mix it up conference by Zoom. Over 300 delegates viewed the conference from far away as France. Karen was by far the most engaging, lively and funny speaker that I have viewed on the Zoom platform. I felt a personal connection to her as her virtual persona was very welcoming and attractive. She is the best and oh, did I say...she is an expert at planter designs. I learned many valuable ideas and tips.
Fantastic Talk on Deer Resistent Design
Karen delighted San Juan County, Washington garden club members on a snow bound, on and off power outage morning. Relevant, timely and charmingly presented information about DEER RESISTENT DEGIGN.
wonderful presentation- England Re-Visited
Karen presented to our Trilogy Garden club this week-- a wonderful, humorous, interesting show about wonderful gardens in England- through the eyes of someone who knows! makes us want to travel to England...
Containers
Recently I heard Karen speak about containers at the USBG in Washington DC. Karen is a very good speaker, she speaks from experience. Her slide show was excellent. She gave step by step instructions on planting a container and many ideas for how to do it, many different plant ideas. She also provided handouts that were helpful. I would recommend her as a speaker and look forward to her new book (she has written several).
Folige First
Anyone who would like to create WOW! containers, or great combinations of plants that work in their landscape would learn a lot from Karen. Her presentations are fun, energetic and motivating. I recommend her talk to anyone who loves gardening.
Foliage First
Karen's ideas are great. She is entertaining and educational throughout her slide show presentation.
Wonderful Ideas
I attended a presentation by Karen last Wednesday night here in Bellingham. I found her positivity infectious and am inspired to create spaces in my garden reflecting foilage more than the blooms. Blooms are important but I learned that the foliage is around a lot longer!
Foliage First
Delightful speaker conveying interesting information. Very helpful handouts. Looking forward to reading Karen’s books. Knowledge of plants and design ideas equal successful presentation.
Foliage first
Karen Chapman was very organized and had a great power point presentation. She shared wonderful and interesting ideas I can implement in my own garden.
Skyline Garden Club
The Skyline Garden Club was very fortunate today that Karen Chapman came to present "Foliage First" to our club. Karen is a wonderful speaker - very knowledgeable, interesting and professional. After our meeting I received several positive comments about Karen's presentation. We look forward to having Karen return to our garden club again for a future presentation.
Trilogy Garden Club
Karen spoke at Trilogy's Garden Club last night. She gave a wonderful talk about how to integrate light, shadows, movement and sound to make a beautiful garden with different plants, grasses and artwork. She has traveled all over the United States and presented us with wonderful pictures to inspire and create our own beautiful gardens, whether they are large or small. She is a master at her craft and truly loves what she does. I highly recommend that you attend one of her talks if you get the chance. She will be at the Northwest Flower and Garden show in Seattle next month.
Check out the times that she will be speaking. You won't be sorry.
Check out the times that she will be speaking. You won't be sorry.