Re: Oklahoma Garden Festival

Isn't that funny, I use white for punctuation as it were, whole beds of
it are too blah. Funny how our instincts will rarely lead us astray...


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Kitty" <kmrsy@comcast.net>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Sun, 1 Feb 2004 18:54:42 -0500

>Patricia,
>Thanks for the overview of your talk - I sort of felt like I was there.  And
>thanks for the tip about white, it makes sense.
>Kitty
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "pdickson" <pdickson@sbcglobal.net>
>To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
>Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 5:46 PM
>Subject: [CHAT] Oklahoma Garden Festival
>
>
>> I wanted to tell you all about getting to hear Derek Fell speak today at
>the
>> garden festival.  He
>>  has written over 60 books on gardening - around 2.5 million copies in
>> circulation.  He talked on Monet's gardens.
>> I loved the talk but
>> as much from an artist point of view as a gardeners.  I even bought both
>> books.
>> He talked about using white in small pieces instead of a huge clump.  He
>> said a big clump looks like a hole where small pieces add to the
>brightness
>> of the overall picture.  He had a picture of purple iris,
>> lavender iris and a very few white iris that was beautiful.  Monet had the
>> most labor intensive gardens. He told how Monet didn't pay any of his
>>  gardeners. They were allowed to take the excess cuttings and plants to
>the
>> local farmer's markets and flower shops to sell. That became their wages.
>> The slide show alone was worth the drive home in the rain.
>>
>>
>>   He told that if you are ever able to go to Monet's gardens you should
>> write for a pass to be able to go on a Monday.  Artist and  photographers
>> are granted a pass if you write ahead and ask. Since there are over
>600,000
>> visitors a year it is great to go on Mondays when very few are  there.
>>
>> He talked about the use of Hot colors and Cool colors like you do in a
>> painting ... the hot colors up front and the cool color in the distance to
>> fool the eye into thinking the garden is much further away.  He said he
>used
>> the straight beds with the walking paths beside them to show perspective
>> again as in a painting.   He loved single petal flowers for the
>translucent
>> quality of them.  He loved to have flowers not only low but high up to
>draw
>> the eye up.  Monet loved lace and tried to use flowering vines to look
>like
>> lace on the trellis. He hated variegated plants ... thought they looked
>> sick.
>>
>> I loved this quote:
>> Hybrids give the garden drama!
>> Reseeders give the garden soul!
>>
>> He told of the Americana Rose bred by Pyle from America.  He talked like
>it
>> is one of the best roses but you can't find it anywhere today.
>>
>> He was a great speaker telling great stories from his travels to Monet's
>> gardens.  He told of how the gardens were restored and how Monet's step
>> daughter Blanche loved the gardens.  It was she that kept the house,
>> paintings and gardens from being destroyed during the war.  I did take
>notes
>> and there are several more  and I could go on and on but I think you can
>> tell I loved it all.
>> I hated to leave... knowing it will be another year before it is time to
>go
>> again. For those of you that live close to Buck county Pennsylvania Fell
>> invited everyone to his own gardens in Pennsylvania which are open to the
>> public on some of the major
>>  holidays.
>>
>> Patricia
>> zone 6b
>> where it is raining but turning to ice...  30 degrees right now.
>>
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Pam Evans
Kemp TX/zone 8A



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