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Edward Flaherty

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Educated in Brussels, London and Midwest America, Edward Flaherty interned for two years at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University to earn his horticulture bonafides.

His undergraduate and graduate degrees have been in Landscape Architecture and Geographic Information Science.

An international award winner and frequently invited conference speaker, Edward Flaherty practiced landscape architecture over the past 5 decades on very large projects where he has lived as an expatriate in Africa, Europe and Asia. In Morocco, he has made his home in both Meknes and Tangier.
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My landscape stories are challenging, not focussed on neo-romantic beauty and wonder…why not beauty and wonde
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“Gardens and chocolate both have mystical qualities.”
Edward Flaherty

“Landscape: what is seen? What is felt?”
Edward Flaherty, Tangier Gardens

“Once you go plant, you never go back.”
Edward Flaherty, The 23 Club

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“Once you go plant, you never go back.”
Edward Flaherty, The 23 Club

“Gardens and chocolate both have mystical qualities.”
Edward Flaherty

“Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.”
Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered.”
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“Landscape: what is seen? What is felt?”
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