Way back in 1998, my friend and then-client Sharon and I went to a Haystack Rock summer weekend in Cannon Beach for which Ann Lovejoy and Lucy Hardiman taught a garden design workshop on Saturday and took us garden touring on Sunday. (Sharon and I had become fast friends when we had created a garden for her earlier in the year; a few years later she moved away and the garden faded back into lawn.)
Digression: Making Sharon’s Garden
above: back in the days before the “straighten”button!
And here is Sharon’s garden in 1999:
Back to the tour story:
On the weekend of the Haystack Rock garden design workshop, we toured the big country garden of Cannon Beach garden designer Beth Holland first, just on the other side of Highway 101 and down a short quiet road..
After the lovely tour of Beth’s estate, we drove to the Tolovana neighbourhood of Cannon Beach and saw this lovely sight by the sea.
One of the gardens had a train layout.
My favourite garden was that of local writer and quilter and gardener June Kroft. (I was deeply saddened in 2010 to learn that the one year (2009) when I had forgotten due to my mother’s ill health to go to the Cannon Beach Cottage tour, June’s cottage had been on it. I would love to see the inside.)
I have an old book from the Cannon Beach Historical Society, a bit worse for wear from years in my old damp cottage. I got it when the society had a photo exhibit called “A Village of Flowers” at their museum in 1999. The booklet is created from a manuscript by June Kroft and I share here a few pages from it in hope that perhaps you may be inspired to find yourselves a copy.
From the book: Old Timer: Throw out a bunch of nasturtium seeds around a piece of driftwood. That’s a beach garden.”
Now that’s my idea of a garden tour.
For my next birthday after the garden design workshop, Sharon gave me this framed sketch that Ann Lovejoy had made in Sharon’s notebook to illustrate the design concept of “bubble and flow”. I treasure it to this day.
It helped a great deal with my garden design confidence, that while Lucy Hardiman makes design drawings that are intricate and scaled to the inch, Ann’s a more of a sketch, an idea, a chicken scratch….like mine.
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