STORM KING
Went up to Storm King on a beautiful Sunday afternoon to see this landscape at the height of autumn color. My true desire though was to tag along on a tour of Darrel Morrisons majestic designs of native grasses. Darrel Morrison, FASLA, is a longtime advocate of the use of native vegetation in landscape design and restoration work. He taught in the Landscape Architecture Department at the University of Wisconsin for 14 years where his emphasis was on native plants, native plant communities, and landscape restoration. Subsequently, he taught in the School of Environmental Design at the University of Georgia where he served as Dean and professor emiritus from 1983 to 1992. Currently, he is a professor at Columbia in the Graduate Landscape Design program and maintains his own practice consulting and designing landscapes for some very high profile clients . I am very fortunate and blessed to have studied under him at Columbia. Following are some images of Darrels luxurious swaths of grasses and a few other artists work...
Foreground is Sorghastrum nutans (Indian grass)
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