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TERRY'S STORY:
Terry Moyemont has been carrying around a camera for almost
fifty years, since his parents bought a Kodak Pony 35mm
when he was in junior high school. And, from the first,
the landscape caught his attention, maybe because in the
rolling flatness of Central Illinois anything that was vertical
or that meandered or that even offered an irregular shape
to the observer was a treasure to be remembered and, so,
to be photographed.
After earning his degree in philosophy from the University
of Chicago, Terry put his education to good work, first
as a film maker and, later, as a video documentary producer,
with works that traveled a path which only an inveterate
liberal arts student could invent – glass art in the
Czech Republic, olive harvests in the mountains of Crete,
peace keeping in Macedonia. And through this thirty-year
career his 35mm camera was always at easy reach.
In 1999 he took his new bride, Terri Stanley, on their honeymoon
to the tiny mountain village of Vizari on Crete, where he
had bought a 500-year old stone house seven years before.
Within a year the couple had moved to Crete for the year
to rebuild the house and to plan a future garden. Stanley,
a garden designer on Bainbridge Island for twenty years,
had found a new and unfamiliar world of plants on Crete.
Their search for the way to make a garden in the Mediterranean
led the two to join the Mediterranean Garden Society, an
international organization centered in Athens, and to bring
back what they’d learned to Washington.
In the intervening four years Terry and Terri have created
Mesogeo, a nursery specializing in mediterranean and tropical
plants hardy in the Pacific Northwest. And from this venue
the two have begun writing articles on gardening, with Terry
Moyemont becoming a full-time garden photographer, both
for their own articles and for those of other garden writers.
Now they are at work on their first book, “A Garden
in the Middle of the World”, a personal look at mediterranean
garden style based upon all that they have seen, heard,
and photographed, both in their travels around Europe and
in their work here on Bainbridge Island.
Visit: www.mesogeogarden.com
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