Create Nourishing Flourishing Home Utopias
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!
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 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!!!
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.
The Search for a Expressive Cover
High Green, Nancy and Holcombe Greens’s lovely garden in Cashiers, NC, is the current poster child for Lifelong Landscape Design: Environments for Health and Longevity, due for release in August 2012 by Gibbs Smith Publishers.
The garden has everything… an atmospheric waterfall, place to sit, herbs between the cracks, gentle stairs, flat surface on which to walk and beautiful plantings. The demo cover is evolving, so stay tuned!
Mary Palmer leaves this week for Garden Writers of America Annual Meeting in Indianapolis to debut the upcoming book. Over 650 Garden Writers vie for the opportunity to share contacts, hear fabulous & inspirational lectures and visit good material to write about…gardens! www.gardenwriters.org/
