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Webinar Library

The recordings of our pay-to-view webinars are made available through Vimeo on Demand.

Each one is 50 mins to an hour plus audience questions.

Members can get a 50% discount.

Julia Crawford on Mien Ruys

Julia Crawford has written the first book in English on the work of Mien Ruys
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Shaping Urban Spaces - creative strategies for greening cities

Darryl Moore, Director of Cityscapes will explore how to develop creative approaches towards greening the city.
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Claire Greenslade and Tim Martin - The garden – the greatest art form?

Claire Greenslade (Head Gardener) and Tim Martin (creative director) of Hestercombe Garden look at the crossover between art and landscape.
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Mark Laurence on Coastal Gardens

An experienced landscape architect who has worked in many challenging situations takes us on a detailed look at how to plan coastal gardens.
Troy Scott-Smith on Winter

Winter - A season for 'Putting the Garden to Bed'? Not at all, winter is a season for doing and for enjoying.
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Julie Moir Messervy - The Designer's Way

Julie Moir Messervy has always sought to create landscapes that resonate with beauty.
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Annie Guilfoyle - What makes a great garden designer?

Annie explores how garden designers can increase the creativity in their working practice.
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Ben Pope - Embracing the Seasons - Autumn

For horticulturist and Head Gardener Benjamin Pope, the biggest joy of gardening comes with the changing of the seasons and passing of time.
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Dan Benarcik - Five design principles for seasonal planting at Chanticleer

Dan Benarcik has spent the last 28 years creating and implementing seasonal displays within courtyard gardens at Chanticleer. His focus has long been using tropical and non hardy plants with a strong emphasis on dynamic design, creative container combinations and innovative display. He believes that “we each have uniquely different approaches to design and aesthetics within our gardens. Each of us having a set of fundamental principals that form the basis of our creative personality. I would like to share with five principals of design within the garden at Chanticleer that I rely on.

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Rental for 30 days is $15 (£11-£12, €13-€14) through the Vimeo on Demand service. This requires that you sign up to Vimeo, but this is an absolutely minimal inconvenience (and they won’t bother you with marketing). Video length is usually around an hour.
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Troy Scott Smith on Old Roses

Troy Scott-Smith, head gardener at Iford Manor was previously the head gardener at Sissinghurst Castle, the home of Vita Sackville-West
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Miguel Urquijo - The Continental-Mediterranean Garden

One of Spain’s leading garden designers 'break the moulds’ with traditional formality
Mien Ruys – Leading Lady of Landscape Design

The work of this towering figure of 20th century Dutch garden and landscape design (1904-1999) is not well-known outside the country.
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Marian Boswall - Sustainable Garden

Marian Boswall is an experienced landscape architect who has spent a lifetime exploring a sustainable approach to her work that combines the practical and the spiritual.
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The Inspiration of John Brookes - Designer and Teacher

Gwendolyn van Paasschen explores the legacy of our most influential garden designer.
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David Mattern - Blurring the Boundaries

David Mattern of Chanticleer looks at various ways of integrating vegetable growing into the decorative garden.
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Dan Pearson - Gardens for Life

Dan has created gardens for two Maggie’s cancer caring centeres.
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Tom de Witte – Processing a Garden Design Project

What happens once a design has been approved by the client?
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Tom de Witte - Structure in the Perennial Garden

The Dutch garden designer talks about the use of woody plants in and around perennial gardens to create structure, framing, screening and helping borrow landscapes.
Piet Oudolf on Block, Matrix and Scatter

The art of setting out perennials in larger planting schemes by the world's leading garden and planting designer.
Nigel Dunnett - Future Gardens

Professor Nigel Dunnett of the renowned Department of Landscape at the University of Sheffield outlines his vision of naturalistic planting for urban areas.
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Jacqueline van der Kloet - New Ways with Bulbs

The Dutch garden designer and bulb expert makes a presentation which features
Darren Lerigo - The Modern Topiarist

Darren is a gardener who specialises in topiary and pruning. He travels all round the UK and USA shaping shrubs and hedges with his shiny shears.
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Carolien Barkman - Small Gardens with a Twist

Renowned Dutch designer Carolien Barkman has years of experience of creating gardens in the dense urban environment of The Netherlands.