On Saturday, before it got tooo hot, we headed to west Salem to David & Coralee Rhoten’s to see David’s Garden, open that day for the Hardy Plant Society members. The garden was designed in 1992 to compliment the earlier plan of local plantsman Ernie Iufer for the 1956 house. The “new” garden built by […]
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LIVING THE CREATIVE LIFE: MARTHA CURRY
Martha Curry has been working as an interior designer since 1980. Today I sat in her beautiful and serene house, and she talked about the design process, her own strengths…one of which is her amazing eye (“that’s what I have to sell–my eye”), her methods of working with clients. Her well-edited home interior makes me […]
Lord & Schryver & the Plane Trees, Chapter 2
Yesterday Sharon and I were doing some preparatory file sifting as we begin the process of mounting a show next year at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art that will feature the drawings of Edith Schryver. Schryver was one half of the landscape design team of Lord & Schryver, active in this region from 1928 […]
The Weather…ugh (and the Gilbert House Garden Tour)
I hate to talk about the weather but it REFUSES to become late spring/early summer here in Oregon in every way except for the delicious light, with us until 9:30 p.m. or so. Last week was the Gilbert House Garden tour with about 400 people through the gardens in 2 days but, AMAZINGLY, the sun […]
Gardens…plus…
We’ve been getting the garden ready to be on the Gilbert House Garden Tour next Friday and Saturday, June 4 & 5. I’ve noticed I’m a slower and creakier gardener than I was in 2002, maybe there are more weeds, but it looks okay. Better come and see all the gardens, many of them in […]
Ready to compost…
This morning I stood in a long line in a parking lot with a lot of other responsible people, to get my new compost bin…now I just have to figure out how to use it: …it can’t be that hard, right??
Divas of Design: Women Landscape Architects
On Saturday I went to a terrific day of lectures on women in landscape architecture in the 20th century sponsored by the Lord & Schryver Garden Conservancy. Speakers were: Thaisa Way of University of Washington who has a new book out “Unbounded Practice: Women and Landscape architecture in the early 20th century” and Judith Tankard […]
Friday Report from the Annex…
The Annex studio is in the middle of a terrific park. Part of my time there involves letting the setting infiltrate my thinking. This week, after some warm weather, everything is just POPPING! Here’s the scene right outside my patio door: and a closer view reveals bleeding heart: these cool little bamboo things: One of […]
SPRING!!!
Camellias were my first Oregon revelation. Yesterday the camellia in front of our lovely historic house reminded me of another little house…and that spring was on the way: We came to Salem in 1970, and in January of 1971 moved into a rickety little wooden rental house over on Statesman Street. The next month I […]
Aventura…
I’m off to Phoenix tomorrow for a week of adventures. Yesterday “harvested” all the hydrangeas in anticipation of late fall bouquets, took a walk around Deepwood garden and enjoyed the last of the summer bouquets from Sharon’s garden as I tidied for departure and made some lunch: See you next week!!
On The Way 