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Julie Messervy writes a monthly column for Fine Gardening magazine. Julie Messervy is an internationally known garden designer. As an internationally known lecturer and teacher, and head of her own design company, Messervy exudes confidence and authority tempered with openness to new ideas and a generous sense of humor. Messervy's work in the Boston area includes such clients as the Arnold Arboretum, Mount Auburn Cemetery, and the Museum of Fine Arts. She recently completed a children's garden at Elm Bank, the headquarters of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and she writes a monthly column for Fine Gardening magazine. As part of the process, she asks them to read her 1995 book, "The Inward Garden,"While a graduate student in architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she earned a fellowship to Japan to study landscape design under garden master Kinsaku Nakane. For the first part of her apprenticeship, Messervy's sole job was to visit as many gardens as she could and teach herself to look and feel.

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