By Sharon Cohoon, Sunset senior garden writer
Yesterday's post showed two examples from the Mar Vista Green Garden Showcase which takes place on Saturday, April 30th. Here's another one I liked.
I love the drama of that wedge of steel that terraces the property, the textures and colors of the plants, and all those dramatic boulders. Garden design is by Johanna Woolcott. I also like that there's more to this garden than immediately catches your eye.
Turns out those boulders tell a few stories. There are words etched on them that spell out one. Here it is in full:
"In my garden there is a bull/frog, a queen/bee, a monarch/butterfly, a flowering dog/wood, a tiger/lily, and a polka-dotted lady/bug."
The words are all there but you'll have to hunt a little to find them -- a game children catch onto quickly but the rest of maybe not without a little prompting.
The back story is the stones are a replication of a children's sculpture piece created by the homeowner's mother, Siv Cedering, a Swedish-American poet, author, translator, sculptor, and painter who died in 2007.
Her daughter, Cedering Fox, is carrying on her mother's love of the written language. She makes her living doing voice over and coaching voice, but her real passion is Word Theatre, a venture she founded in which great actors read great literature in literary salon settings in Los Angeles, New York, and London.
Another Siv Cedering sculpture in her daughter's garden. The words are from one of her poems.
