Blog #5- Meeting Lori & Heidi

    Heidi O’Neil and Lori Kalberer graciously agreed to meet with Dani and me months before our project started. Heidi is currently the landscape architect here at Hawken for the new veterans memorial. Before meeting with her, Dani and I drew up some not-to-scale plans of the entire Bétail garden and all the plants we wanted to include. Dani and I actually used one of Heidi's old plans of the garden that Mr. Biggar commissioned her for about three years ago and we based our plans off on this. Heidi talked to Dani and me about how to properly come up with plans that are to scale. She helped us get more measurements that were more accurate and helped us space out everything that we wanted to include, even a pathway! 

After our meeting with Heidi, I went to the fab lab and spent hours trying to get a scale drawing of the area. I learned how to use an architectural ruler and paper and properly proportion everything and translate it to paper. 

Our meeting with Lori was amazing. Dani, Mr. Biggar, and I actually went to Lori’s house which is about 5 minutes away from Hawken to ask her some questions about her time fixing up the garden. Dani and I learned so much from her. When she was in high school, her senior project was four weeks long, and before she started she went to Europe to visit the original Shakespeare Garden in order to execute her project properly. She used different books and even had quotes with the plants that she used in them. Lori tried extremely hard to make sure her project was as accurate as possible. Lori talked to me and Dani about how she is amazed that someone is planning to fix this garden almost 50 years later. When she left, no one really took up the challenge of being the garden keepers. Dani and I hope to start a gardening club or potentially have some of the science class maintain our garden so it can thrive long after we are gone.