David Furber

I garden on a small city lot halfway up South Hill, across from the South Hill recway. I grew up with gardening - my mother is a Master Gardener - but the passion didn't spark until I got the chance to design the website for the Plantsmen Nursery. Something clicked about arranging the columbines and the tiarellas and the buckhaws and the skunk cabbage that gradually grew into a passion for gardening.

Although native plants are high on my list, I also aim for pleasant associations with the past and places, such as geranium bevans (macrorrhizum, or "zdravets" in Bulgarian), which is not only a prominent plant in my wife's home country, but reminds me of a 10 meter wide patch of it I stumbled upon in the Tiergarten in Berlin. You will also find lots of pansies, peonies, and irises (when they deign to bloom in our shade-dominated garden).

I am a historian by education - I finished my PhD at SUNY Buffalo and taught part-time at SUNY Cortland for a couple of years before I got a great opportunity to do full time what I used to do as a creative distraction - web design and programming. So if you need something like this for your business or organization, be sure to take a look at Gorges Web Sites.