Susan Cohen & Florence Boogaerts

Teaches at New York Botanical Garden

Susan Cohen, FASLA, RLA is an award-winning landscape architect, an instructor at NYBG, and the Coordinator of the Landscape Design Program. She also coordinates the annual NYBG Portfolio lecture series in Manhattan that presents outstanding landscape designers from throughout the country and the world. Cohen's design work has been the featured in newspaper and magazine articles, including aGreenwich magazine cover story about her redesign of the Mae L Wien Summer Garden at NYBG. Her own garden is included in Stacy Bass's well-reviewed book, In the Garden. She specializes in residential work, but she also has designed two exhibition gardens for NYBG: Momijigari: The Japanese Autumn Garden, which was staged for several years, and Sculpture from The Museum of Modern Art at The New York Botanical Garden, for which she designed the landscape setting for 15 iconic sculptures on loan from the museum. She co-designed, with Marc Peter Keane, the NYBG exhibition, Kiku: The Art of the Japanese Chrysanthemum. A graduate of Smith College, Cohen began her landscape design training at NYBG and received her BS in Landscape Architecture from the City College of New York. She was inducted as a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects in 2010. Her office is in Greenwich, Connecticut

Florence Boogaerts, APLD, holds a Landscape Design Certificate from the Botanical Garden. She has her own design and installation firm, Florence Boogaerts Design, in Greenwich, Conn.