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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