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DCTC Voice Featured at the U of M Landscape Arboretum Secret Garden Exhibition
June 7, 2006
Rosemount, Minn. –The Landscape and Horticulture instructors, students and alumni have teamed up to participate in the University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum's Secret Garden Exhibition.
After receiving an invitation to submit a proposal this past winter, instructor Matt Brooks and his second-year Landscape Design students prepared and presented their plan to the jury. DCTC's design was selected out of a pool of 50 proposals to be one of the installations built on the Arboretum’s grounds.
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The DCTC team started the project this spring, and with the help of donations from Gertens Garden Center and the generous aid of equipment and an equipment operator from the landscape firm of Winco, Inc., the installation was finished in late May.
The installation is titled Voice of the Willows, after a poem
about one's path through life by Thomas E. Spencer. Voice of
the Willows features the poem printed on a colorful door that serves
as an entryway to the exhibit. From there, the path leads you through
the grass, past a small stone throne and colorful plantings of perennials
and roses, through the canopy of old spruce, across a circular planting
of blue willow, past weeping pussy willows, under the canopy of an old
weeping willow bedecked with impatiens hanging baskets and, finally,
to a tranquil setting of a large bluestone throne under the weeping willow
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The juried Secret Garden Exhibition at the U of M Landscape Arboretum runs from June 3 to Sept. 10, 2006, featuring 20 beautiful installations. DCTC's installation is number 17 on the program, located on the Arboretum's three-mile drive in the small and weeping tree collection. For more information about the Arboretum and the exhibition, visit: http://www.arboretum.umn.edu/.