Where to begin…this is so symptomatic of what I have been like this past month. Scattershot… Can’t even figure out where to begin my paragraph.
I have just finished the Northwest Flower and Garden Show. Collaborating with 4 other designers ( go to http://d4collective.wordpress.com to see the evolution of the design these past 9 months) we created the display garden for the show owners. I have lived, slept, obsessed, powered through and identified plant names thousands of times in the past 2 weeks. We have see-sawed from high drama to zen-like mood swings through it all. I have gone to bed at 2 a.m. and been back on the floor at 7 a.m. I have lived on Advil and heat packs and gotten a work-out beyond sense. I may be getting too old for this.
But in the end, we created a magical place- away from the noise of a huge garden show in the center of a bustling convention center and with roughly 70,000 people milling about. A white garden, a twilight garden with pools of water and handblown glass orbs; wrapped with sheer panels of poetry and clouds- a refuge spun from theater and thousands of plants and artists so generous with their time and volunteers that are crawling around from exhaustion too. From a bare concrete floor
to the Garden in Verse.
So now I have time to look out my window, cook a real dinner, see my husband, talk to my family and not bolt out of bed to work on the show. I am ready to be in real gardens and try out my new camera and plant seeds in my vegetable garden…so, so ready.
