Experience

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  Natasha Hopkinson Landscape Design

  • Owner
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  Natasha Hopkinson Landscape Design

  • Owner

    • 1996 - Present

    Designed and oversaw the installation of numerous urban and suburban gardens in Boston and New York and several estate gardens in East Hampton. Many have been published or televised.

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  deyoung.famsf.org/Bouquets-to-Art/Auxiliary

  • San Francisco Bay Area

  • Program Co Chairman

    • May 2019 - Present
    • San Francisco Bay Area

    Program Co-Chairman for Bouquets to Art

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  San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers

  • Golden Gate Park, San Francisco

  • Advisory Council Member

    • Dec 2015 - Present
    • Golden Gate Park, San Francisco

    Mission: To providee support, advocacy, and stewardship for The Conservatory of Flowers

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  OneTwoFour

  • England

  • Assistant Producer,

    • 1997 - 2015
    • England

    Collaborate with OneTwoFour Productions’ staff on the production of “The Chelsea Flower Show Souvenir Video” for the Royal Horticulture Society every year in May. Schedule interviews, write scripts and directe a filmcrew. Contribute intensively on video promotion and marketing.

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  The Garden Club of America

  • Greater New York City Area

  • Liaison to the Central Park Conservancy

    • 2008 - 2013
    • Greater New York City Area

    Oversaw the Garden Club of America’s $750,000 Centennial Gift to restore a two acre site in Central Park.Participated in fundraising. Prepared reports and media presentations to inform the GCA’s members of the progress of the project. Worked with the Central Park Conservancy to create design solu...

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  The Metropolitan Museum of Art

  • New York City

  • The Big Bambú with the Starn Brothers

    • 2010 - 2010
    • New York City

    Oversaw details of the preparation of $100,000’s worth of Swiss climbing cord that was used from reordering to detailed preparation and delivery of the cord for climbers to tie the bamboo in a timely manner. Responsible for site detailing of the gigantic roof top bamboo “action artwork” structur...

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  The Cultivated Gardener, a radio program for NPR,

  • Boston, MA

  • Segment Host & Co- Producer

    • 1998 - 1999
    • Boston, MA

    Was “lead talent” on a segment that reviewed aspects of horticulture from the practical to the poetic, in addition to presenting, arranged interviews and wrote scripts.

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  Breaking Ground –HGTV

  • Boston, MA

  • Segment Host & Assistant Producer,

    • 1994 - 1995
    • Boston, MA

    As Segment Host, helped launch the flagship series of The Home and Garden Television Network (HGTV).Broadcast from municipal and private gardens across the country, reaching +20 million American viewers.Found and created the stories, wrote scripts using extensive garden club network, arranged all...

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  Allen Haskell & Son

  • Greater Boston Area

  • Horticulturalist & Designer

    • 1991 - 1993
    • Greater Boston Area

    Worked extensively, “hands on” with the plant material of the Haskell nursery and provided expertise and advice to high profile accounts.

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  Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM)

  • Washington, DC

  • Media Presentations Director

    • 1967 - 1970
    • Washington, DC

    Wrote and created slide presentations and reports. Often the photographer and graphic designer as well. This landmark mega project produced a total multidisciplinary redesign of Baltimore’s progressive expressway system that set the stage for the development of environmental impact procedures th...