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 [...]
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Eastern Shore Garden Tour
Posted in Projects, Special Events, tagged Eastern Shore, Ferry Cove, Garden Design, Hillwood Museum, James van Sweden, landscape architect, landscape architecture, Maryland, oehme van sweden, OvS, St. Michaels, Suman Sorg on May 18, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Arnold’s Promise
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged arnold's promis, arnold's promise, Eric Groft, hamamelis, James van Sweden, landscape architecture, oehme van sweden, Sheila Brady, Wolfgang Oehme on February 23, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Our Hamamelis ‘Arnold Promise’ is blooming and quite fragrant this week. This dependable late February bloomer reminds us of what is around the corner. It’s time to cut back your perennial garden in preparation for spring! We highly recommend this deciduous, medium size flowering shrub for your front garden. As one of our favorites among [...]
Eric Groft & The Shipley’s Choice Garden Club
Posted in Special Events, tagged Eric Groft, Garden Club, James v, James van Sweden, Shipley's Choice, The Artful Garden, Wolfgang Oehme on February 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Oehme van Sweden Principal, Eric D. Groft, recently lectured on the newest OvS book, The Artful Garden: Creative Inspiration for Garden Design. The Shipley’s Choice Garden Club, located in Millersville, Maryland, was the host for the January 10th event. Members and guests of the event were able to gain valuable and inspirational insight to the [...]
Scott Arboretum Visits Danieli Garden
Posted in Special Events, Uncategorized, tagged architecture, danieli gardens, Eric Groft, James van Sweden, landscape, landscape architecture, landscape design, oehme van sweden, Wolfgang Oehme on January 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This September, Oehme van Sweden principal, Eric Groft, will lead members of the Scott Arboretum on a tour of the lush East Hampton garden in The Springs on September 22nd of 2011. The Scott Arboretum is the campus of Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. The members of the group are avid gardeners and many are [...]
Historic New England Gala
Posted in News, Special Events, Uncategorized, tagged bunny williams, Eric Groft, historic new england, James van Sweden, landscape architects, landscape architecture, Lisa Delplace, new england properties, oehme van sweden, preservation maintenance fund, Sheila Brady, Wolfgang Oehme on January 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On Friday, January 7th, Oehme van Sweden principal Sheila Brady attended the sixth annual Historic New England Gala in Boston, Massachusetts. The Gala is a benefit supporting the Preservation Maintenance Fund, which helps to raise money for projects that contribute to the long-term sustainability of Historic New England’s properties. For the last century, Historic New England has [...]
In Memory of Harry W. Porter
Posted in News, tagged Dean, Department of Landscape Architecture, Eric Groft, Harry W. Porter, In memory, James van Sweden, landscape architect, landscape architecture, Lisa Delplace, oehme van sweden, OvS, Sheila Brady, University of Virgina, Wolfgang Oehme on January 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Today, we write with sad news. Mr. Harry W. Porter, former faculty member and Dean of the University of Virginia, passed away yesterday at his home in New Bern, North Carolina. He was 74. Mr. Porter was one of the founding members of the University’s School of Architecture. Recruited by Dean Joe Bosserman in 1969 after [...]
Snowfall Blankets OvS Plantings at Tanger Outlets
Posted in Projects, tagged architect, design, Eric Groft, James van Sweden, landscape, landscape architecture, Lisa Delplace, oehme van sweden, Sheila Brady, Wolfgang Oehme on January 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Oehme van Sweden has always paid particular attention to the subtle beauty and strong forms that emerge from the winter garden. After one of the many recent snowfalls that has blanketed the region, the plantings we designed for the Tanger Outlets at the Arches in Deer Park, New York looked beautiful against the thick layer of snow. [...]
They’re Here!
Posted in Awards & Recognition, News, tagged Eric Groft, James van Sweden, landscape architecture, Lisa Delplace, oehme van sweden, Sheila Brady, The Artful Garden, Wolfgang Oehme on January 11, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Any of our followers who have been keeping an eye on Oehme van Sweden lately know that our latest book, The Artful Garden: Creative Inspiration for Landscape Design, will be coming out on February 1st of 2011. This afternoon, we were welcomed with a nice surprise. UPS stopped by with a box of eight, brand [...]
Contrast in the Garden at Cornerstone Sonoma
Posted in Projects, tagged Alice's Garden Travel Buzz, California, Cornerstone Sonoma, garden, Garden Design, Grace Knowlton, James van Sweden, landscape architect, landscape architecture, oehme van sweden, Sheila Brady on November 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Oehme, van Sweden was again praised in the blog-o-sphere for our work at Conerstone Sonoma in California, a self-described “collection of shops, wineries and a gourmet cafe set amidst nine acres of garden installations created by the world’s leading landscape architects.” Designed by Founding Principal James van Sweden and Partner Sheila Brady, The Garden of Contrasts [...]
Planting at the Trinca Garden
Posted in Projects, tagged Douglas fir, Eric Groft, Garden Conservancy, Garden Design, Gardening with Water, Gardens by Jeffery, Greenwich, James van Sweden, Jeff Jones, John Knowlton, landscape architecture, lotus fountain, oehme van sweden, Open Days, Pinus parvifolia, Rosita Trinca on October 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Following an earlier meeting with Rosita Trinca at our offices in Washington, DC (see our previous blog post), Eric Groft and John Knowlton of Oehme, van Sweden travelled to the Trinca home in Greenwich, Connecticut to supervise the replacement of a Douglas Fir tree that blew down during a late spring storm. The tree was replaced with [...]
