Designing Climate Adapted Gardens: A Designer Forum
with Naomi Goodman, Jonathan Hallet, and Jason Jorgensen

Please join Naomi Goodman, Jonathan Hallet and Jason Jorgensen for an informative design forum as they discuss changing climate methodologies for creating beautiful, healthy and resilient landscapes. Bring your tough design questions for the moderated Q & A session at the end of the three speakers’ talks. This is an online event, a recording will be provided and will expire 3 weeks after the event date.

Naomi Goodman: When making gardens, how can we put wildlife front and center, AND meet the aesthetic and functional needs of a garden’s human inhabitants? What materials are available locally that have fewer negative externalities than others? How can we creatively reduce as much waste as possible when making new spaces? These are the thoughts that percolate from today’s garden makers globally who inspire Naomi. She will share examples of her work and others who she is continually energized by in this world of garden making.

Jonathan Hallet: I watched my parents experience their yard as a burden. It looked like an overwhelming and never ending chore – and the lemon didn’t seem worth the squeeze. And as a good millennial, I don’t like to do fussy gardening, but I do love nature and gardens. And it turns out that gardens can be a lot less work than we tend to make them. I will share from both design/planning perspectives and hands-on technique, how to do low-input garden maintenance (both material-wise and labor-wise).

Jason Jorgensen: Understanding climate change in PNW gardens: this talk will discuss what is climate change, how it affects urban and suburban PNW gardens, learning new plant palettes, and updated horticultural techniques.

Speaker Bios:

Naomi Goodman

Naomi Goodman is the Seattle based owner of Firecracker, a landscape design firm that creates gardens for the urban habitat. Firecracker’s work stems from the ethos that a garden is to be enjoyed and used by people and its wildlife inhabitants. Naomi likes to experiment in garden making, to see how far outside the lines she can get clients to color.

Jonathan Hallet

Through my practice Supernature, I design ecologically-harmonious and playful gardens. My focus is to create outdoor spaces that feel wild, wear neglect well, and bring birds and insects in. Beauty and vanity is great too, but let it be fun and easy. I studied landscape architecture at UC Berkeley and work in residential and public garden design on the west coast.

Jason Jorgensen

Jason Jorgensen obtained his formal degrees in Landscape Design and Ornamental Horticulture from the School of Horticulture at Edmonds College, Lynnwood, WA. Jason is currently a Qualified Professional Member of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers Washington Chapter and a Certified Professional Horticulturist from the Washington State Nursery and Landscape Association. Jason is currently a Board of Director for the Northwest Horticultural Society based in Seattle, WA, Board of Director for the Association of Professional Landscape Designers Washington Chapter, and Perennials and Grasses Plant Selection Committee Member for the Great Plant Picks Program based in Seattle, WA. Jason is passionate about changing the paradigm on creating beautiful, sustainable, and meaningful gardens and garden design.