Expertise:
Mr. Oehme's expertise includes operations management, design and herbaceous perennials and ornamental grasses.
Major Product/SVS:
Landscape Design for Residential and Commercial Properties and Estates
Favorite Business Publication:
Landscape Architecture
Education Degrees:
Coursework in Landscape Architecture, University of Berlin (1954)
What do you feel separates you from the rest of the professionals in your industry?:
Mr. Oehme’s creative thinking and helping tendency separate him from his peers.
What has been the most outstanding thing you have done thus far in your career?:
Mr. Oehme’s greatest career achievement was utilizing the opportunity to transform the waterfront of a coal mine in Bitterfeld city into a lake with many types of perennials and grasses.
Number Of Years In Profession:
51
Extended Bio Profile:
Mr. Oehme is a distinguished landscape architect and horticulturist with more than 50 years of professional experience. His early work in Europe has featured the breadth of experience that marks his work today and he moved to the United States in 1957. He designed golf courses, parks and playgrounds for the Baltimore County Department of Recreation and Parks until 1965 and continued to practice independently from 1966 to 1974. His work included park systems for the new town of Columbia, Maryland and many private residences in the Baltimore area. In 1977, he founded Oehme, van Sweden & Associates with James van Sweden. His credits include redesign of all planting along Pennsylvania Avenue from the United States Department of the Treasury to the National Gallery in Washington, DC for Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation, Virginia Avenue Gardens of the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, DC, Morrill Hall gardens at the University of Minnesota, National Education and Training Center campus for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at Shepherdstown in West Virginia and MacArthur Center retail complex at downtown Norfolk in Virginia. His practice also extends to his native Germany with projects in Chemnitz and Magdeburg. His creative use of herbaceous perennials and ornamental grasses demonstrates how dramatic, multi-seasonal, and low-maintenance they can be. His teaching experience includes the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Georgia. He and van Sweden co-authored ‘Bold Romantic Gardens’, which received two Award of Excellence from the Garden Writers Association of America.
Position Responsibilities and Duties:
Managing Operations, Designing
Education Certifications:
Licensed Landscape Architect
Awards/Honors:
George Robert White Medal of Honor (2002); Landscape Design Award, American Horticultural Society (1992); Distinguished Service Award, Perennial Plant Association (1987); Apprenticeship Award, Bitterfeld Horticultural School, Germany