BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Library Market//iCal Export//EN BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Create Your Own Garden Paradise with Landscape Designer Emily Kelt ing UID:73732 DTSTAMP:20260308T132900Z DTSTART:20250429T230000Z DTEND:20250430T000000Z LOCATION:1441 Post Road\nDarien CT 06820 ROOM: Community Room DESCRIPTION:It's time to think gardening!Darien Library welcomes loca l landscape designer and award-winning photographer, Emily Kelting, who wi ll teach you how to create your very own garden paradise. Sound intriguin g? It is! Now more than ever, our homes and gardens need to be our "s anctuaries"—for personal relaxation, family fun, and entertainment.  Learn how Emily, owner of GreatScapes, a local landscape company in busi ness for 21 years, has transformed her own gardens, and those of her clien ts, into personal retreats and refuges from daily life. Discover importan t factors that landscape designers consider when designing a property—im portant considerations for DIYers too!  Emily will provide helpful resour ces you can use in the planning and installation of landscape and hardscap e (i.e., everything that isn’t green!) at your house. Turn that backyar d into something glorious!About Emily KeltingEmily Kelting has lived many lives and had nine careers.  She’s a graduate of Vassar College and ea rned her certificate in Landscape Design in 2007 from the New York Botanic al Garden, where she has also taught Landscape Design and Photography. T he owner of GreatScapes, based in New Canaan, she has worked for 21 years for discerning clients on properties that range from condominium terraces to 7.5 acre estates. Emily is also a long-time member of the New Canaan Ga rden Club, a speaker for the Garden Club of America, and a popular present er at garden clubs,  libraries, community centers, and historical societi es.  An award-winning photographer, Emily has travelled to Asia, Africa, Europe and North and South America to capture the spirit of the people and places she visits. She’s also happy to come home. Recently, having do wnsized to an apartment with no garden of her own, she feels fortunate to work in her GreatScapes clients’ gardens and on Sprite Island, a private , rustic yacht club, where she paddles her kayak around the Norwalk Island s and serves as the head of the Grounds Committee.In her past lives, she w as a professional figure skater with the International Holiday on Ice, a f reelance writer and on staff at New York and Self Magazines, with over 100 published magazine and newspaper articles to her credit, as well as a book, “Little Winners:  Inside the World of the Child Sports Star”, about child athletes. Emily is the founder of Ice Skating for Everyone, a nonprofit that teaches ice skating to underserved children in Fairfield C ounty, and was a former teammate on the New Canaan Mother Puckers women� 39;s hockey team. Photo credit:  H. John Voorhees III, Norwalk Hour URL:https://www.darienlibrary.org/event/gardening-emily-kelting-73732 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR