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Daniel M. Lowery, APLD
Owner, designer and general contractor with Queen Anne Gardens in business since 1988, Daniel enjoys helping a few residential clients per month create custom designs. He and his staff oversee, build and maintain select landscape designs. Daniel is one of three landscape designers in Washington certified by the international organization Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD). He serves as president of the Washington Chapter of APLD and is a mentor to fellow designers in the certification process.
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Queen Anne Gardens is proud to support the following organizations:
Queen Anne Helpline
Seattle Youth Garden Works
Sanctuary Arts Center
Cambium Arts Resources
For additional information about Queen Anne Gardens call 206-285-6770 or email us.
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NEWS 2007
Autumn
Its time to plan for Spring 2008
Timing: the garden sequence of spring bulbs is the garden lover's well earned reward for planning ahead.
Five months from now all our favorite bulbs that we bury before the first freeze will begin to burst above the ground and delight our eyes with a magical sequence that can carry into the summer. Contact us for your bulbs.
2007-08 Center for Spiritual Living (CSL)
Coming-of-Age Program
A Youth Program
Supporting the Practice of Living from Spirit
Our youth programs are focused on helping our older youth learn and practice spiritual concepts with confidence and support. Our youth group structure program offers a safe place for older youth develop skills that are both practical and transformational (i.e., communication, accountability, responsibility, goal setting, visualization, affirmations, positive prayer) cslseattle.org/yfm-youth.htm. Daniel is participating as a spiritual companion for one youth during this program and he must first accomplish all the tasks that the youth will accomplish next year. In the Lakota tradition the coming-of-age process includes a sweat lodge and vision quest. Daniel went through this process in the wilderness during the weekend of 9-28-2007.
On September 27, 2007 the participants of the Coming-of-age program went to Waterhouse Center Inc. where people grow in trees! Daniel climbed to the top of a telephone pole and jumped off to a trapeze swing...and that was just the beginning.
Below is the painting Montagnes et lac (1929) by Lawren S. Harris (1885-1970). This painting illustrates for Daniel the vision of new horizons--greater perspectives--gained through this program for both the youths and their spiritual companions.
August 25, Saturday
"Uptown Stroll-A Festival of
Artists in Action"
An annual community arts event, the Uptown Stroll
This event features local artists, craftspeople, actors, musicians, and storytellers in a late summer arts celebration. Many artists are at this event each year actively creating artwork based on their Queen Anne/Uptown locale for the day. The activities are centered around the site of the future "Counterbalance Park". Daniel Lowery was featured as a painter for the second year. This year Daniel's painting won the Uptown Stroll 2007 Plein Aire Award and the painting will be hung at the Queen Anne Branch of Bank of America.
Writing Workshop:
Nurturing the Written Word
University of Washington Botanic Gardens at
Center for Urban Horticulture, Seattle
This summer, to support his job as the editor of APLD's journal The Designer, Daniel chose to participate in an intensive professional development workshop for garden, horticulture, nature, and conservation writers. Instructors: C. Colston Burrell is a contributing editor for Horticulture and writes regularly for Fine Gardening, Landscape Architecture, American Gardener and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Lucy Hardiman is a popular lecturer, teacher and author and is a contributing editor for Horticulture, pens a column for Northwest Garden News and writes for Fine Gardening and Pacific Horticulture.
APLD National Board of Director's
Summer Meeting
At the Philbrook Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Daniel Lowery went to Tulsa as the National Communications Chair. These meetings provide members with a chance to explore outstanding examples of landscape design and natural landscapes as well as continue the business of the organization. The Philbrook Museum [photo directly below] is a 23 acre estate with an Italianate Renaissance garden, reflecting pools, and a sculpture walk, as well as other formal, informal and kitchen gardens. One side trip went of the Meeting was a visit to the Tall Grass Prairies Preserve [Sunset photo over the prairies shown above] where the Nature Conservancy has been able to return thousand of acres of the tall grass prairie back to its natural state providing habitat for bison to roam.
At these Board Meetings there is a rich sharing of ideas and practices between landscapes designers across the country through the APLD organization and events. Daniel will spend a day shadowing another designer's practice after the meetings have adjourned.
From the large and symmetrically ornate
to the precious and asymmetrical detail
Queen Anne Gardens has the skills to design Beauty specifically for your home
Spring 2007
Timing: the garden sequence of spring bulbs is the garden lover's well earned reward for planning ahead.
Six months ago all our favorite bulbs were avidly collected and quickly buried. This left us to wait out the winter months for spring to reawaken our buried treasures as bulbs produce an amazing sequence of joyous flowers.
It begins at the first touch of warmth in late winter with snow drops and crocuses, early iris reticulatum and enterprising Daffodils. Then as deciduous plants begin to leaf-out and replenish our world, the eagarness of daffodils give way to the pomp and splash of tulips. Tulips in all shapes and sizes, from tiny delicate pixies to doubles that resemble peonies. Finally the tulips drop their upsidedown skirts of petals and the onion reigns. Allium bulbs spring up like stalks from a martian planet and explode in amazing balls of purples and reds, blues and whites. (Allium giganteum, A. aflatatunense , & A. a. 'Purple Sensation' seen in photo above)
Enjoy every moment in your changing garden.
Form Space Light Art Gallery
A Solo Show hangs April 6th to May 12th, 2007
Daniel Mark Lowery's oil paintings were on show from April 6th, Fremont's "First Friday" Art Walk, to May 12! This shows focus was on labyrinths, their mystery and use for meditation and self discovery. Labyrinths are used as a symbols for many cultures throughout the world and have captivated people for thousands of years. Daniel uses the form of the labyrinth to focus his energy in discovering the source of personal truth that he believes we all hold inside us. The paintings display his struggle and joy through the journey of walking labyrinths to gain the stillness of thought required to listen. The twenty new labyrinth paintings will be shown alongside a 3-D installation and a few labyrinth paintings from years past.
Click Photos for a complete inventory of the paintings on display.
Photos of Paintings in Gallery April 2007
Form Space Light
619 N. 35th Street Suite #100
FREMONT (Seattle), WA 98103
In the alley North of the PCC Parking Garage ~
Behind the Blue Doors, walk in hours in April Tues-Sat 11AM- 6PM.
NorthWest Flower & Garden Show : February 14-18
Caravanserai: Kublai Khan's Stately Pleasure Dome
This year the Queen Anne Gardens Crew became Actors in Designer Christopher Jacobs Display Garden!
We became Persian Nobles in an interactive garden display, with many many plants, pots, pools, along with water painting, drums and gongs, as well as chess.
Legislation delayed to 2008 session
Keep Landscape Designers :
Contact Your Legislator
Legislation delayed this year that could regulate Landscape Designers out of Business will return next year!
Just as Interior Designers and Architects coexist and fill necessary niches in the market place, Landscape Designers and Landscape Architects are both valuable assets to the work force. However the American Society of Landscape Architects supports a bill with language that may greatly diminish the ability of Landscape Designers to practice their craft. The Association of Proffessional Landscape Designers asks that everyone write to their legislators and encourage them to adjust the wording of the new regulatory bill or simply vote it down www.apldwa.org. To find your legislator check out the Washington Legislature's website: http://apps.leg.wa.gov/DistrictFinder/Default.aspx
Just Last ...
December 2006 Sunset Magazine
Designed for Privacy
One of Queen Anne Garden's gardens is showcased on page 49 of Decembers Sunset. " Clean design, well-defined spaces, and meticulous attention to detail make even a small corner lot seem spacious and private. " Pick up a Sunset Magazine to read more.
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