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Long-awaited, a bio. in English about one of the most prolific, inventive and truly inspirational landscape and garden designers of the 20th century - Mien Ruys.
Margaret Roach: Garden Writing, Wildlife, and American Gardening Debates
Rebecca McMackin is one of the leading, and most articulate US voices for biodiversity in the garden.
We talk to British TV gardener and designer Arit Anderson and Swedish academic Henrik Sjöman about their new book - ’The Essential Tree Selection Guide’.
Noel talks to Neil Diboll whose Prairie Nursery has been selling seed and plants for 50 years, and Hilary Cox, his collaborator on a uniquely comprehensive book on prairie-making.
Paul and Helen Strickland and daughter Tabitha run Black Shed Flowers in Dorset.
The Oase Foundation is a remarkable Dutch organisation that co-ordinates the work of community gardeners who want to create spaces for nature
Lee Parks is a English landscape architect who has lived in Shanghai since 2004.
Perennial and native plant innovator, youth worker, all-round hort-hero from the Midwest talks about his life with plants, places and people.
Vicki Leedham is co-curator of The Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden in Surrey.
Julie Moir Messervy is a New England based landscape architect who has been a lifelong innovator in her profession.
Troy Scott-Smith explains how the National Trust have started a new ground breaking scholarship programme to train head gardeners for the future.
German Federal Garden Shows are amazing, huge and transformatory events
Marchants Hardy Plants in Sussex, established by Graham Gough in the mid 1990s is one of Britain truly great specialist nurseries.
This week we venture to rural Ontario to meet Ben O'Brien and find out about his garden designs and planting philosophy.
We chat to Sue Milliken and Kelly Dodson from Far Reaches Farm.
Lulu Urquhart & Adam Hunt run a landscape design studio dedicated to nature. As first-time exhibitors at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022, they won a gold medal and Best in Show for their ‘A Rewilding Britain Landscape’, which showcased a native landscape in the process of reverting to nature, including a beaver’s dynamic habitat.
The practice specialises in contemporary restorations of older gardens and their wider landscapes, bringing nature into gardens as part of ecological restoration. https://urquharthunt.com/
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Nick talks about a book collaboration that takes us across the US to discover 20 gardens whose creators are re-inventing the American garden.
We talk to Rachel about her recent book on growing perennials and shrubs for cutting.
Ross Bayton is Director of Heronswood, a garden famous as having had an incredible burst of fame and energy back in the 1990s-early 2000s
Richie Steffen is Director of the Miller Garden, five acres on Washington State's Olympic Peninsula.
Richard Hayden is Horticultureal Director of the New York High Line.
A heempark is a park where native plant species are used to create a naturalistic environment, for the benefit of communities and nature.
Paul Gallivan and Jamie Leslie from Woolbeding Garden in West Sussex, tell the story of the latest addition to this beautiful garden.
Marya Padour is head gardener at a remarkable garden in Chicago, created by the late Posy Krehbiel. A wonderful example of 'high horticulture' with exuberant summer planting combining perennials and annuals. Noel is joined by top garden photographer Andrea Jones whose pictures we see.
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The Latvian Janis Ruksans is one of our true heroes.
Dan Pearson takes us around the garden that he is creating with his partner Huw Morgan.
Ben Pope is Head Gardener at a private garden in southern England.
Kate Dumbleton and Imogen Checketts are making a garden…
Marian Boswall, a garden designer in the south of England describes her approach to sustainable and earth-sensitive design. This is a TRAILER, to see full content you need to be a Garden Masterclass member https://www.gardenmasterclass.org/aboutmembership
Michael McCoy is the leading Australian garden TV personality.
Anja Maubach runs Arends Staudengärtnerei, one of Germanys most distinguished nurseries
Artisan landscaper Sid Hill has taken the lessons of ecological planting design and is trying to apply them to edible landscapes.
Brandon Chens day job is in international trade, but as a student in Britain he fell in love with gardens.
Xanthe White is a designer based in Auckland, New Zealand, a borderline subtropical climate. Working with many native species, Xanthe’s planting design is exceptional, with a particular success at filling all visual and ecological layers. She is also, quite simply, the most articulate speaker on design out there. https://xanthewhitedesign.co.nz JOIN US LIVE! Thursdays at 18.00 London time with log-in: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83781125288 DONATE This is a pro bono broadcast for the global garden community - we appreciate donations - please see: www.gardenmasterclass.org/home-page/tgc FIND OUT MORE ABOUT WHAT WE DO, and perhaps sign up for your newsletter www.gardenmasterclass.org
Darryl Moores book - Gardening in a Changing World is a broad and comprehensive overview of our relationship with plants.
Ambra Edwards is currently one of our few garden history voices, and a very engaging and lively one at that.
Airfield is an exuberant and colourful public farm and garden in Dublin.
A wonderfully inspiring talk by a pioneer in using cerrado (savannah) plants in gardens and landscapes.
Steve Castorani is President of Pennsylvania-based North Creek Nurseries.
A fascinating and inspiring interview with a uniquely wide-ranging professional.
Sarah Eberle has been awarded gold medals in more categories than any other designer at RHS Chelsea.
Tom Hoblyn is a garden designer with a number of Chelsea and Hampton Court show gardens under his belt.
Sean Hogan is one of the most knowledgeable plantspeople of the American west coast.
Meredith Simpson is a longtime perennial gardener with particular interest in modern planting design and environmental stewardship.
Tom Brown is Head Gardener at West Dean in Sussex.
Jennifer Jewell is the creator, writer and host of Cultivating Place.
Kelly Norris is a writer, designer and artist who is also former director of horticulture and education.
"Philip Oostenbrink's new book from Filbert Press - The Jungle Garden
"Fionnuala Fallon has been the gardening correspondent for The Irish Times since 2011.
Amalia Robredo has been a leading advocate and promotor of naturalistic planting in Argentina and Uruguay.
Alejandro O'Neill comes from Uruguay, but now lives and works in the south of France.
"The Radicepura Festival at the foot of Mount Etna is a relatively new event that is unique…
Mary Benger has spent a lifetime creating a garden on the family farm in the lush green landscape of the Devon/Somerset border.
Katy, the Cultural Gardener at The Hepworth Wakefield Gallery in Yorkshire.
Julian and Fiona Wormald have been making a garden in Mid-Wales for nearly three decades.
Adam is a researcher at the Silva Tarouca institute where he works on perennials.
Sichtungsgarten (Trial and Display Garden) Hermannshof is perhaps the most exciting place for planting design in Europe.
Jonny Bruce has always worked in horticulture.
Barbara Segall is an accomplished and much-travelled writer on gardens.
Barbara Segall is an accomplished and much-travelled writer on gardens.
Denmans in Sussex is famous as the garden of John Brookes (1933-2018) the garden designer.
Innovative Spanish garden and landscape designers are increasingly making a mark.
Harry is passionate about alpine plants
James tells about the making of the garden in the New Jersey woods which has featured in his long running blog
Molly Hendry now works for the Friends of Birmingham Botanical Gardens in Alabama
Innisfree is a garden which is something of a legend in the US.
Roland Gustavsson describes the remarkable and innovative 'landsape laboratories' .
Garden designer Marco Scano talks about his native island.
Kate Dumbleton and Imogen Checketts.
"I’m a writer by profession and a planting designer by passion" says Tony, creator of blog The New Perennialist.
Freelance gardener and former Vanity Fair graphics editor, Julie Weiss.
Errol Fernandes is the Head of Horticulture at London's Horniman Museum.
PHS is one of the world's oldest horticultural societies and renowned globally
Benjamin Vogt is a Nebraska-based designer of prairie gardens and writer.
The Lemon Tree Trust helps refugee communities to create gardens all over the world.
Derry Watkins has an amazing enthusiasm for plants, and incredible knowledge of them.
We talk to two garden owners: Robyn Kilty and Jo Wakelin
Sarah Wain (formerly of West Dean in Sussex) and Brian Trader (Delaware Botanic Garden) discuss their use of volunteers.
The popular garden television personality, consummate garden designer and plantsman James Alexander-Sinclair.
We look at some aspects of horticulture in Poland in communist times.
Prof. Norbert Kühn tells the story of the German plant breeder, nurseryman, writer and magazine editor.
An interview and presentation from a leading campaigner for ecology in India.
Noel talks to Anna Andreyeva.
Bernard Trainor is one of the leading garden and designers in California.
Desert Island Gardens invites a guest to to talk about their five favourite gardens.
Abra Lee is a horticulturalist who is writing a book for Timber Press on the hidden history of African-American gardening.
Greek mythology, poetics, psychology, philosophy, all come together at Plaz Metaxu.
Annie and Noel talk to Ken Cox The Cox family of Glendoick Gardens in Perthshire, Scotland.
Clare Foster's collaboration with photographer Andrew Montgomery has led to the creation of an extraordinarily beautiful book on winter gardens
The northern Japanese island of Hokkaido is experiencing a wave of innovative gardening, based on using perennials. Here we meet an engaging and articulate garden professional, Sachi Tanabe, who talks us through local garden culture; she includes an interview with Sayuki Ueno, a pioneer in developing garden tourism.
Dr. Keith Hammett, in Auckland, New Zealand.
The Yuan Ming Yuan was the Chinese Imperial garden on the edge of Beijing
Jo McKerr is a garden designer with deep family roots in Somerset.
Hester Forde packs in a huge diversity of plant life into her suburban garden.
The sweet pea is a classically British flower, whose hybridisation dates back to the late 19th century.
Zac Tudor runs an innovative sustainable planting scheme in Sheffield, 'Grey to Green'.
Flower farmer Rachel Siegfried talks about her work with nature-friendly floristry.
The Lurie Garden was Piet Oudolf’s first commission in North America.
Tom Brown takes us on a tour of the glasshouses in the Victorian walled gardens at West Dean, West Sussex.
Chanticleer, just outside Philadelphia, is one of the finest, if not the finest, public gardens in North America
Rebecca Lemonius talks about the garden at her home - Long Barn in Kent, which is where Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson made their first garden.
Fergus Garrett's approach to garden management at Great Dixter is completely and beautifully cutting-edge.
The English Woodland Garden is one of the world's most highly developed horticultural genres.
Martin is Head Gardener at this spectacular project, masterminded by Dan Pearson
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society is one of the world's oldest such bodies
Hanna Packer designs gardens in and around New York.
Designed by Tom Stuart-Smith, this new riverside garden in Wakefield, Yorkshire, brings contemporary garden design to a new public space.
Ron Scamp and his son Adrian grow over 2000 varieties of daffodil.
Marcus de la Fleur is a landscape architect in Chicago who is passionate about rainwater management.
Paul Opello is Head Gardener at Hagley, the first garden made by the Du Pont family.