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Ginny, I've been following the updates in the local paper... You can too, if you do a Google search to find the Salem News online edition. Every few weeks they usually have an article about what's going on at the site. The basic scoop -- a big developer, the Archstone Corporation had the winning bid for the development of the hospital campus, but the stipulation was that they had to preserve the Kirkbride (that's the big gothic main building). Archstone had its engineers do an initial check of the structure, and reported that with some minor adjustments they could preserve the building. After Archstone got the deal, though, they proposed a plan radically different from their original. Now, they claimed that the age and degree of decrepitude of the Kirkbride would make it impossible to save anything but the front facade. The Danvers town council was outraged (as were many residents). On top of that, relatives of some of the patients who had died and were buried on the campus were very concerned that any development plans that go through must honor and preserve the modest cemetery. The deal was just a big mess. Archstone dropped out. Another company (the name eludes me right now) took it up and apparently has provided a plan that preserves the Kirkbride exterior and its main interior structure... but with major renovations. There are supposed to be lots of new condo buildings, plus use of the Kirkbride and neighboring brick buildings, but I don't know what those uses will be. I presume offices and/or more housing. I drive by there quite regularly, and have always been taken by the beauty of the setting and the drama of the campus structures. I hope that any development that is undertaken preserves the dignity of the place, and its lush green setting.

I do not consider myself good at design. With the space we have I feel we've done a good job of creating spaces based on the topography, but when it comes to plant selection we have a lot to learn. Color combinations, foliage, bloom time, color and spacing are more elements than I have the knowledge or capacity to manage. When we first started we had some large beds that needed filling and it was what we saw at the nurseries and plants we coveted. There is more than a bit of the "Collectors" garden, especially in the early years. You just can't afford to by enough special plants to fill such a large space. Over the years we've gained understanding and plants have multiplied, but there are still places where it's more than a bit willy nilly and due to time and money constraints you just let the plants do what they want to do. Which in many cases is just fine and things eventually look pretty good, but that's because plants are awesome, more than some plan by us. Each year we move things around, remove plants we don't like or that don't grow well and find others that work better. And sometimes we've invited plants into the garden that I would rather we hadn't, but their too hard to remove and we just live with them. It's an editing process that I hope lasts the rest of my life.