Guests from the Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens visited gardens designed and installed by Oehme, van Sweden & Associates on the eastern shore of Maryland on Monday May 9th. OvS Principal Eric Groft led two garden tours on the bay at Ferry Cove in Sherwood, MD including OvS Founder James van Sweden’s home and garden and the garden of next door neighbor, architect Suman Sorg, who designed the houses on each of the properties.
Eric Groft address the hillwood museum group in the formal garden on Marengo Creek
Hillwood Estate Executive Director Kate Markert and Program Director Joan Wetmore were in attendance along with 40 other friends and sponsors. Following the tours, Eric Groft signed the new OvS book The Artful Garden: Creative Inspiration for Landscape Design.
Eric Groft signing the Artful Garden in the garden at Ferry Cove
It was a spectacular spring day of Euphorbia palustris, Tradescantia, and Baptismia all at peak bloom. Lunch was served at the home of Jan Kirsch in Bozman, MD. The day finished with a tour of a historic house and garden that Eric Groft had worked on 15 years ago, located on Marengo Creek. Iris Caesars Brother and Paeonia lactiflora ‘White Wings’ provided a show in the formal garden.
Eric explains the philosophy of the garden to the group on the bayside of the SorgHouse
i’m sorry i missed this!!!
i moved to the eastern shore a little over a year ago and as i was exploring this beautiful area i noticed this intriguing house surrounded, hidden, by a wonderful landscape of grasses and other native plants that are the styles i’ve loved for so long. then i saw an article in gardens illustrated and recognised this place. i was so very excited to find that my instincts that it is a special place were correct!
i live just 10 minutes away and have been hoping to find a way to visit…i just this morning found this blog by accident.
please let me know when another opportunity to visit comes up. i would be honored to be included.