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Early Spring at Highcote: frogs trilling, geese mating

I love this photo sent by friend, E Bradham from Charleston. I want to go here!! Our  daffodils from Brent & Beckys bulbs planted from GWA samples received over many years enrich our garden at Highcote in Cashiers, NC with a multitude of cup colors and form. The apricot hyacinth Gypsy Queen is fantastic. Pulmonaria in a tapestry of pinks and purples., Weeping cherry purchased for $25 and now 30′ tall is magnificent with cascades of pale pink flowers. Blindingly dark purple grape hyacinth has never been thicker or better.

Forysythia,* Corylus spicata* in bloom, Stachyurus about 3″ long racimes ready to pop…it is a heartbreakingly early zone 6a-new zone 6b- spring. Tulip poplar with 1″ leaves sheaths…I’m enjoying while waiting for the next shoe to drop  since our spring officially is around May 15, not March 15.

Jupiter Island Hobe Sound CC a walkway with patina

Distressed concrete might not be the first thing you think about when it comes to Hobe Sound, but there you are. Different strokes for different folks. I like the texture of this homemade tabby, a take on the historical real think made from either carved ( sliced) coral stone, or imbedded and compressed crushed oyster shells. I was judging  the GCA Jupiter Island Flower Show, attending a Peter Wirtz lecture and stumbled upon it!

Home Movies : Jim Cothran, FASLA Memorial Video Link

Time passes by all too swifly. I promised many of you the link to the memorial video played on February 17, 2012 at the UGA gathering in honor of our friend, the late Jim Cothran, FASLA.

Susan Hitchcock and I photographed and keynoted images of the many trophies, family photos and manuscripts that Lynn Cothran shared with us. A voice-over of the eulogies fromt the funeral is included on this video link.This a “Home Movie” and I think, very sweet. It also features colleagues at the Cherokee Garden Library memorial gathering and includes images sent from many friends.

In memoriam Jim Cothran, FASLA (click here)

We share a kinship as a loosely formed group of garden historians, garden club members and landscape architects who knew Jim. In the past short month since his passing, scarcely a day goes by that I don’t think of him. In so many ways, Jim Cothran was the face of garden history in Georgia and South Carolina, and in the South in general. He had such gentle, all abiding interest in our cultural landscape ways.

Lynn has his slide collection and asked me what to do with them. She even has my old slide projector given to Jim when his antique projector bit the dust! It inspired me to send you each gift, a link to 4800 inspirational images of gardens from my archives. The garden history ones are particularly popular (012 series). Please share these galleries with your friends http://learn.dargan.com/

I wish Jim’s slides could be scanned for posterity and shared similarly. Any ideas?

I do not have a complete list of who came, or couldn’t or wanted to be there and just found out, so please share http://vimeo.com/36870419 in honor of Jim.

Mary Palmer in San Diego!

Mary Palmer is on an exciting adventure to San Diego, CA to reach her dreams of becoming the next garden guru! She’s studying with internationally renowned sales and marketing “queen”, Lisa Sasevich, to help learn the tricks of the trade in creating the best product for her readers. Additionally, she is meeting with video extraordinaire Jimbo Marshall from Hell Yeah! productions to get the best concepts and ideas for her Placemaker’s Workbook and series of 12 DVDs, due Summer 2012! This workbook and study series will be jam packed with gardening tips, ideas, and personal testimonies from various garden characters that will be sure to keep you thoroughly entertained and informed on all of the latest and greatest garden tools, tips, and technology. Stay tuned!!!

Landscape Course gets Videos uploaded!

Remember all those landscape design courses I taughtat Clemson called the Clemson Certificate of Landscape Design (CCALD)? Ta-daa… they  are here for you as videos and power point shows…free!

Well, I hated to let them languish in the closet. So, we uploaded them to VIMEO… and voila, now you can have them for tune-ups and inspiration. The address is http://acald.org/ or if you just want the videos: http://vimeopro.com/dargan/landscape-design-course

Study up on landscape history, planting design, learn hundreds of zone 5,6,7,8 plants, hear me yawn, refresh your memory on footings, arbor design and remember how to draw.

Oh yes, the power points reviews are there too, so you can print a picture from the lecture. There will be a test in November, just kiddin’ !

These shows are a gift from me to you.

Redesign the world, one garden at a time.