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A little bit about us...
Pam Pooley had a long career in public television production in New York City before starting a garden design business. When she along with her wonderful husband Eric, two lovely daughters, and a gentle labrador retriever moved in 1995 to a bucolic town in New York, not far from the city, the enticingly rural nature wooed her. She dropped a lot of what she was doing as she fell in love with gardening. With more questions than answers, and more mishaps than flourishes, she enrolled in courses at the New York Botanical Garden. Just as this evocation was taking root, Eric's job relocated the family to London, land of fine horticulture, where she immersed further into exploring gardens and landscape design. Returning stateside, for the past 14 years at the same farmhouse in New York back where the green envy began , she has relished cultivating, restoring and loving the land. Digging in the dirt and observing the nature of things are gardening's best teachers. Visit: www.pampooley.com
Jeanne Farewell is a pianist who gives lecture-recitals on music and its association with art and literature, and is also a writer whose published work includes essays, stories, novels, and book reviews. As well, she has cultivated an interest in art and art history and her paintings have been presented in shows. Such an engagement in the arts has informed her approach to the design of her garden, with elements of harmony, color theory, rhythmic tread, perspective, pacing, and even musical “rests” considered. A study of Chinese monumental landscape painting has created a compulsion to read the negative space of a garden as well as the areas that draw the eye. A longtime member of the U.K.’s National Trust, Jeanne visits English gardens whenever possible and, when not possible, reads about them. She has aspired to integrate the formal elements of the English garden with the wild and craggy property in the foothills of the Appalachians that is her home. Visit: www.jeannefarewell.com
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