{"id":14282,"date":"2026-07-07T08:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/?p=14282"},"modified":"2026-07-07T08:22:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T15:22:18","slug":"meerkerk-gardens-a-bunch-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2026\/07\/meerkerk-gardens-a-bunch-of-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Meerkerk Gardens – A bunch of art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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2026-7 Meerkerk Gardens is in the Freeland\/Greenbank area northwest of the Seattle area on Whidbey Island. <\/strong> For the past couple of months I’ve been working on these 9 paintings for this public garden, the testing garden for the Seattle Rhododendron Society’s new hybrids. I’ve gotten to know the people and place and if I come back with any say of how I’d live, I’ll pick living here – in the old Meerkerk house surrounded by acres of old Douglas-fir and blooming rhodies. It’s a rare place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That said, I got to paint this wonderful place for new outdoor wayside panels – and make portraits of some of the people responsible for it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These will be plaques under the rhododendrons they created. I believe Yasmin Workman is the only surviving member of this group. These are acrylic on paper.<\/p>\n\n\n

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2026-7 Meerkerk Gardens is in the Freeland\/Greenbank area northwest of the Seattle area on Whidbey Island. For the past couple of months I’ve been working on these 9 paintings for this public garden, the testing garden for the Seattle Rhododendron Society’s new hybrids. I’ve gotten to know the people and place and if I come … Continue reading Meerkerk Gardens – A bunch of art<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[180,492,480,481,3,206],"tags":[42,55,194],"class_list":["post-14282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commissioned-paintings","category-featured","category-interpretive-art","category-nature-art","category-new-painting-post","category-people-paintings","tag-featured","tag-interpretive-panels","tag-larry-eifert"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2026-7-5-Meerkerk-Overlook-featured.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14282"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14299,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14282\/revisions\/14299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}