A chat with Dan Pearson
Nov 17, 2020
Dan Pearson talks about Covid-19, inner peace, and his recent book – Tokachi Millennium Forest.
Recalibrating my planting design thinking
May 23, 2019
My thinking on planting design has been substantially recalibrated in the last 12 months or so by increased contact with the ground-breaking work of James Hitchmough and Nigel Dunnett, largely through their respective books, Sowing Beauty (Timber Press 2017) and the fresh-off-the-press Naturalistic Planting Design (Filbert Press 2019). These guys did the incredible meadow plantings ...
Experiencing horti-psychological whiplash
Apr 29, 2019
Watch as the German Landscape Architect Bettina Jaugstetter reframes my thinking about successional planting. I go on about what Christopher Lloyd taught me, then Bettina, having listened attentively, gently offers an alternative approach. Then she rattles my assumptions about irrigation. THEN, once I think I’ve caught up, she further rattles the new position I’ve only ...