I am a gardener and I play one on TV. I am Eric Johnson.
Why Garden Drama? I have spent much of my life in the theatre- acting, directing, designing and I have spent much of my life in the garden. The two have a lot in common: immediacy, preparation, conflict (in a good way), the performance, the presentation, the passion. The list goes on.
Now I employ myself as a garden writer and designer, a web and graphic designer, and a painter and potter. During my days, I am the Communications and Marketing Manager for Simpson Housing, a non-profit agency in Minneapolis that serves people experiencing homelessness.
I garden in a city lot in south Minneapolis where I don’t mow a blade of grass, because there isn’t one. Anywhere that I am fortunate enough to travel to, I gravitate towards the green spaces.
Gardening is my way of life. Yours too?
3 responses so far ↓
bglaser // November 28, 2007 at 10:55 pm |
Your writing has put warmth and color into an otherwise gray November day. Haphazard gardening is what I can manage – unfortunately this is the best descriptor of other aspects of my days too, but the garden manages to be beautiful in spite of my random planting.
bibomedia.com // March 5, 2008 at 9:05 am |
Thomas Kerby // June 23, 2009 at 8:32 pm |
Eric,
Love your blog site and I could not agree more that is never room for a blade of grass. I am working on getting rid of it in my Minneapolis garden also, or at least my 2 dogs are.