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Blog For The Perplexed
Facts include actions, events and feelings, some under one’s control or influence and others not. A bit like gardening. I’ve been asked frequently questions such as, “What’s the deal with all this stuff about this garden and nursery I’ve never even heard of?” Relatives, friends, customers, acquaintances walking up the street. “I read all this stuff online or in the newspapers—what’s up?” and “Hey George, a blogger just compared you to the Taliban—what’s that about?”
Here is a chronological blog guide (oldest to newest) to our relocation of the nursery to Delaware and Pennsylvania, resurgent and focused R & D at Fordhook, and ongoing preservation of the plant collections and gardens in Washington:
· $11 million, etc. – An invited August ‘06 op/ed article for the Seattle Post Intelligencer.
· Chronicle Of The New Heronswood – The events from 2000 up to mid 2006.
· Flora futurum – Impressionistic comment.
· New Heronswood Update – Winter ‘06 report: relocation, new research, etc.
· By The Sound – Plants for ‘07 suited for the Pacific Northwest, etc.
· Grounded In Reality – Miscellaneous comments.
· West Coast Layers of Meaning – Timely observation of Kingston gardens.
· Anniversary Time – A comprehensive June, ‘07 one-year update.
· Family Values – An appreciation of our cultural artifacts.
· Martian Gardens – Sidelong glances.
· Kingston Tide – July Open Day update. We received much positive feedback from both our ‘06 west coast public reception and this blog about it.
· New Viola Odorata Blues – A bit red-faced, but good information nevertheless.
· Magic Hats – Feeling better and design-oriented. Favorite blog with readers.
· Fireside Q & A – A local Pacific Northwest magazine’s difficult, on-again, off-again, ultimately unpublished interview.
· No Comprende Public Radio – Answer to NPR’s fabrications.
· Casual Gardens – Another “reader’s favorite” blog.
· Heronswood Competitive Commitment – The latest on the subject.
Please read these blogs to get the full story, or at least the side that might balance the scale a bit. In the future, the news will be about our Garden Conservancy public events in Doylestown, PA as well as the one in July in Kingston. Our new research into “unusually great plants”, and especially the European collection trips are beginning to bear early fruit. That’s the most exciting news of all. Thanks for your support, and please stay tuned.
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Thank you for giving your side of the story. I felt it was too lopsided for a longtime. I do miss the nursery in Kingston, and being able to visit the gardens regularly, but never understood the hatred that was generated and fueled by certain hort leaders in the community. Especially those that want to turn Heronswood into a teaching community. If that is what they are going to teach then I don’t want a part in supporting such leadership. Reading a young man’s blog and his hatred was disconcerting, as well as the misinformation that is out in the public. You only have to mention Heronswood and it rears its ugly head. Is this the legacy our horticulture leaders are handing us and the community appears to accept without question?
I hope it heals over soon, as I am tired of hearing about it. I believe the leaders in the Northwest should be encouraging healing and treating others with respect. They owe all of us an apology. I am ashamed of them, and hope that those of us who believe they carried it too far, will raise voices louder in protest.