The sculptor Densaburo Oku, or “Dense” or “Mr. Oku”, in his workshop. He had already a distinguished career in Japan before coming to the US twenty years ago. He casts, molds and blows glass and works metal.
We have ten fish by Densaburo Oku. The metal combines found and reworked parts, and the glass is colored [...]
Photos by Mary Kliwinski
View of Dahlia Research Trials
Research Director Grace Romero
2001 Heronswood Garden at Fordhook, renamed Carolina Garden for my mother.
Memorial for my mother, Caroline Vivian Ball.
Partial view of new Heronswood Gardens
Upper Pond
Lower Pond – the total planted area at Fordhook Farm in 2009 will be about 12 acres.
The [...]
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We published a first version of this light-hearted piece in early 1996 in our old ‘Burpee Home Gardener’ magazine. However, I announced later that I was actually forming the Garden Party—and I did! The Philadelphia Inquirer covered it and CBS radio interviewed me “on the street” in Chicago, where I attended a few small rallies [...]
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Moving a nursery causes more controversy among today’s garden writers than closing one down. Many view a relocation as zero sum: one region’s gain is the other’s loss. However, a company with a national scope and half its business direct to gardeners outside the Seattle area, such as Heronswood Nursery, gains by moving, as do [...]
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And above Butterfly Hill…
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… a heron!
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