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Garden Tour

The noted and very fine  architect Michael Willoughby has long been a member of the board of the Greening of Detroit.  Who knew this group has been planting trees, sponsoring urban education and farms, in Detroit since 1989-this year is their twentieth anniversary.  Michael has been asking me to join this group for a long time-I finally told him,  in exasperation, that I had no patience for groups or committees-but I would do what I could do. So I went to their website.  www.greeningofdetroit.com WOW. These people have done a lot for our city, and they keep on doing it, in the most serious way.  I understand their sentiments exactly.  Plant trees in big cities, in as big a numbers as you can manage. Teach people to grow plants, grow plants that are food. Rehabilitate urban spaces.  Clean up and plant.  Foliate as best you can.  Soften urban spaces with plants; teach people about the planet Earth.  They have been at the issue of greening for a very long time; they did not get to this concept via popular culture, fashion or trend. They have been at it in a big and quiet way for twenty years.  They impress me-their administrators, their board, their teachers, their volunteers.  I taught a class for them downtown on growing vegetables in containers.  The group was lively, smart, and willing.  I had the best time.

So last July, trying to get Michael Willoughby off my plate,  I sponsored a tour of 7 gardens of my design, to raise money for this group. Our top end ticket included a little something to eat, and a little something to drink.  I have to tell you,  the 10,000.00 we raised for them from the sale of those tickets was a very important accomplishment in my life.  The Greening of Detroit planted a tree in Detroit in my name, as a thank you. I can’t explain how this made me feel,  except to say these people made me feel that my efforts made a huge  difference.  They won me over.

So now I am a commissioner for the Greening of Detroit, and we are planning our second garden tour July 19.  I promise you will see beautiful gardens,  and what you spend for your ticket will go directly to a group intensely committed to the ecological well-being of our city.  If you live within a stone’s throw of Detroit,  I would invite you to participate.  If you live far away from me, I would urge you to support your local green group.  Green groups, world wide-I like the idea of this.

Tomorrow’s post-pictures of this year’s gardens.   Again, www.greeningofdetroit.com.  Look at them. Help them, if you can.  Spread the word, if that is what you do best.  Meet up with all of the rest of us-July 19, 2009.

Posted on: May 27, 2009 3 Comments
Filed Under: Detroit Garden Works Tagged With: ,

Sunday Opinion:Beautiful Brits

I am a fan of British gardening publications.  Gardens Illustrated, published by the BBC, is my favorite. Edited by Juliet Roberts, I am in possession of all 149 issues that have been published since 1993.  In addition to their special features  (the May issue of course previews the Chelsea show), they cover plants, people, places, design and events.  The photography is superb.  Its range of coverage is quite good; for the plant person this month, a discussion of  Umbellifers-plants that bloom in umbels.  There is an excellent presentation of the color blue in gardens.  An article about a visit to Drift End in Suffolk  entitled “Dream Landscape”,  absorbs my interest, and delights my eye.  This magazine, more than any other I read,  is a gardener’s gardening magazine.  Focused on plants, garden history, people, and contemporary gardens, and everything in between, I not only read it-but I save the issues, and re-read.  The June issue, available May 28, is their 150th issue celebration, focusing on cottage gardens-don’t miss it.  www.gardensillustrated.com.

The British Country Living is not a gardening magazine per se-its a “lifestyle magazine”  that manages not to digress into discussions of  chic trends and what’s cool. It has a genuine feeling.  It is simply and sturdily enthusiastic about country living. They celebrate what’s made, raised and grown in the British Isles.    When I finish an issue, I am ready to fork it all over, move to the country, raise lavender, make cheese, and tend Jacob’s four-horned sheep;  I am convinced this world is a good one.  The cover of the June issue is a marvelous study in pink roses-“A Rosy Outlook” they call it. On deck, inside-honey and bread-making for beginners,  and making the most of fish.  I am the furthest thing possible from a cook, but I read with great interest the story of the fishing industry of Cardigan Bay in Wales  (well, ok, I do have Cardigan Welsh Corgis)-down to the recipe for rollmopped herrings and mackerel. I am convinced beyond a doubt this dish would taste great-seasoned with the history of these fisheries.   This magazine is so well done-you will be transported.   www.allaboutyou.com

Some days, Sundays in particular, I like being transported for just a little while,  to another place, or another time.  These magazines are just the thing for this weary June gardener.

Posted on: June 7, 2009 2 Comments
Filed Under: Good Design

Thanksgiving Day

 

I got an email today from a reader who lives in Williamsburg about their special way of decorating for and celebrating the holiday season.  She had no idea that pictures I saw 10 years ago of the wreaths, swags, garlands, and lighting at Williamsburg transformed my ideas about how to decorate for the holidays.  I do so love the Williamsburg holiday style; I find it a great source of inspiration. To follow is her letter.

 I happened upon your blog this morning while researching a bit for my holiday decorating.  I found your submission about Magnolias, and I agree they are beautiful and are a part of our holiday decorating every year.  I wanted you to know about the town where I live, because maybe one day I think you would truly appreciate a visit at the holidays, specifically at our Grand Illumination.  I live in Williamsburg, Virginia and the first weekend in December is always a big event as the Colonial part of town (restored area and living history site) decorates in colonial fashion for the holidays.  The fife and drum corps play and folks in costume walk around story telling, interacting, selling cider and ginger cakes etc.  Here is a link.  I hope you don’t find this too off the wall, but it is rare I find others who love to decorate naturally at the holidays, and therefore it is rare that I find folks who truly appreciate Williamsburg at Christmas.  Either way, I hope your Thanksgiving was wonderful and good luck with the holidays!   Julie E.   Williamsburg, Va

 http://www.history.org/foundation/journal/christmas04/grand.cfm

http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Christmas05/wreaths.cfm

 http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Autumn09/christmas.cfm

She sent me several pictures of her home in Williamsburg, decorated for the holidays.  Has she not done a beautiful job? I especially like the grass spikes that criss cross behind her wreath.  The geometric arrangement of fruit I associate with the Williamsburg holiday-this is a beautiful interpretation of that idea. 

Happy Thanksgiving to you too, Julie.  Many thanks for taking the time and effort to write.  Many more thanks to all of you who have taken the time to write-I truly appreciate it.

Posted on: November 24, 2011 1 Comment
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Sunday Opinion: Why Do You Do It?

I read Rochelle Greayer’s blog, Studio G, an ambitious compendium and commentary on all things garden and landscape design related, almost every day.  One day she is seriously reflecting on how she interprets the body of information regarding the importance of organic food.  The next I am seeing before and after photographs by a neighborhood gardener that does all their own work.  This might be followed by information on new product design, a historically significant garden, or plants of interest.  Speaking of interest, her interests have astonishing range.  She does an incredible job of sorting, editing, distilling and reviewing.  She writes beautifully.  You know this, I am sure.  But I would go on to say that she writes with a serious intent  She is a garden journalist in the best sense of the word, but I so like that she crosses that  over with impunity, and makes clear her own point of view, her questions and concerns.  I recommend reading her.  I promise you will be dazzled.    www.studiogblog.com.

One of her features that I especially like is her monthly “blogs I like”.   I have to say that when I made her list early last year, I was embarassed, but more than pleased.  But more important than that, I like checking out what she is reading now.  I so value how she shares.  More often than not, her blog is a sturdy bridge to places I really need to visit.  In February, a link to a blog she likes and reads every day- www.thinkingardens.co.uk.  I spent a lot of time reading there over the past few days.

In plain view when this website comes up- an addendum.  “for people who want more from gardening than a garden.”  I instantly gravitated to this community to which I believe I belong.  I read lots of their essays-many of which provoked me, and none of which disappointed.  No doubt,  I want more from gardening than a garden.  

Why do I garden?  First up, I love having my hands in the dirt.  The dirt of my subdivision childhood- understand that I grew up in a neighborhood reclaimed from vast tracts of dirt.  The dirt I am dealt, the dirt that is close by all the time, the dirt of my childhood-the dirt I make via composting-bring on the dirt.  Once I was old enough to make the shocking discovery that dirt enabled life-this made me a gardener.

 This is by way of saying that I no doubt I want more from gardening than a garden.  I want a way of life.  I want membership in any gardening group for whom the beauty of nature is a way of life.  I want exchange. I want community.  I want provocation.  I want a considerable, serious, and continuing discussion of aesthetics.  Many thanks for helping to provide this, Rochelle.  Thanks to you,  I have a new place to read essays about all of this, and more.

Studio G- you are reading this, are you not?

Posted on: March 6, 2011 7 Comments
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