Re: Ed Markham

**"* G* <s*@thecreativegardener.com>**

So bummed that Ed's celebration of life is during the GWA symposium in
Quebec! Sorry to miss out. 

www.thecreativegardener.com
Creative Gardener Design
Urban Garden Company
Tacoma, Washington
253 265 2209

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Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 07:08:34 -0400
From: Helen Yoest <helen@gardeningwithconfidence.com>
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For those of you who knew Ed Markham, here is some information about a
celebration of his life in Seattle. Ed passed away on July 9th.

Goodbye Chief Red Sneaks
Ed Markham, one of the bedding plant and floriculture industry?s greatest
voices, passed away July 9.  He was 94. Known affectionately as Chief Red
Sneaks, Ed was a fixture at industry trade shows like OFA. He also was a
regular at the Garden Writers Association Annual Meetings for many years. Ed
believed in the power of understanding gained through travel, especially
international travel to visit growers and companies in other countries.

Ed received his Bachelors of Science degree in Floriculture from Cornell
University in 1942. For the first decades of his career, he was employed by
Vaughan Seed Co. (1942-1965). In 1965 he moved to the West Coast, first to
Oregon and later to Bainbridge, Washington where he worked for Harris Moran
and Vaughan Seed. Later he consulted for Takii and Sakata when they were
becoming established in the American bedding plant market.

Ed was instrumental in helping to establish the American bedding plant
industry through volunteer work with Bedding Plants Inc. (later known as
PPGA). Many in the industry attended his international tours to Asia,
Australia and especially Europe. He developed and maintained good friends
among seedsmen and bedding plant growers on multiple continents, acting as
an industry ambassador. Later his wife, Yoshiko (Rosie) Markham founded a
very successful plant brokerage company that Ed named WeHoP.

Ed loved nature and the outdoors ? especially his plants and tending to his
gardens. He played an ?air? cello as he listened to favorite classics.
Through the years he enjoyed the company of beloved pets, beginning with a
draft horse as a child growing up on a small farm in Gowanda, New York.
Later he doted on favorite cats, Skunk, followed by Millie. Many of his seed
customers remember Ed and his good friend, the black lab Sam.

He was an avid environmental advocate and promoted our connectedness with
nature in everyday interactions and through newspaper and magazine clips he
would send to distant friends in the mail.  In 2003 he wrote, ?Nature is my
main interest! Most used quote: ?We are not the only creatures on this
earth, though some people think we are.? My enthusiastic pursuit of all
things environmental is boundless!!!? signed, ?Ed Markham, Chief Red Sneaks?

He is survived by his wife Yoshiko (Rosie) Markham and three children, Sen
Speroff, Craig Markham and Dianne Markham.

Friends may honor Ed by donating to the charity of their choice. Industry
members wishing to remember Ed may choose to contribute to the American
Floral Endowment, Markham-Colegrave International Scholarship, 1601 Duke
Street, Alexandria, VA 22314.

A celebration of Ed?s life is planned for Sunday August 18 from 2 to 4 p.m.
at the Markham Garden on Bainbridge Island. For more information, contact
Rosie Markham, yrmarkham@msn.com.

Helen Yoest
Gardening With Confidence?
3412 Yelverton Circle
Raleigh, NC 27612
919.760.5404

Author of Gardening with Confidence?--50 Ways to add style for personal
creativity

Freelance garden and travel writer, promoter of new garden products.

  @HelenYoest

  Gardening with Confidence?  

Field Editor for Better Homes and Gardens, Traditional Homes, Country
Gardens Magazine and Southern Living Magazine

Gardening isn?t a race ? it?s a lifestyle 

Please consider the environment before printing this email

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