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Profile
NOEL KINGSBURY is one of the new generation
of garden designers and writers, challenging established ideas. He is currently
working on a major garden at Cowley Manor near Cheltenham, which will reflect
the latest in ecological planting ideas from Europe.
Television appearances include Gardeners’ World, Jane Asher’s Good Living, and BSkyB gardening shows. He writes
regularly for The Garden, Country Life and more occasionally for The Financial Times, Gardens Illustrated and Gardeners’ World Magazine.
Books include The Wild Flower Garden, The
Indoor Gardener, The New Perennial
Garden, The Ultimate Planting
Planner, Architectural Plants, Design and Plant a Mixed Border, Designer
Borders, Vista – The Culture and Politics of
Gardens and Plants to Transform Your Garden. His latest books are Grasses and Bamboos, Bold Plants, Natural Gardening in Small Spaces and Gardens by Design.
Biography
Dr.
NOEL KINGSBURY is internationally
recognised as an authority
and leading innovator
in the world of gardening
and planting design,
in particular for his
promotion of naturalistic
and contemporary planting
styles. Other interests
include the cultural
aspects of gardens and
food – he is the author
of a recently-published
ground-breaking book
on the history of food
crops.
Noel
travels widely to study
garden design and wildflowers,
believing that we have
a lot to learn from
other countries' experiences.
He introduced the English-speaking
garden world to the
now very influential
Dutch garden designer
Piet Oudolf, and popularised
ecological approaches
to using garden plants,
particularly the use
of perennials and grasses.
Believing that good
design needs to be backed
by science, Noel has
recently earned a doctorate
with the Landscape Department
at Sheffield University.
Noel
has appeared a number
of times on BBC's
Gardeners' World,
and has been featured
on Jane Asher's Good
Living, Granada Sky
Broadcasting and Radio
4's Growing Spaces.
He writes regularly
for The Garden,The Daily
Telegraph and Gardens
Illustrated.Country
Life, Homes & Gardens
and The Guardian.
In
2007, Noel and a colleague,
Tim Richardson, published
Vista, the Culture
and Politics of Gardens
(Frances Lincoln).
This has led to them
co-chairing a highly
successful monthly lecture
series at London’s Garden
Museum; Noel and Tim
have even been dubbed
‘the John Bird and John
Fortune of the garden
world’.
Updated
18/12/2009
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