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Noel Kingsbury

Dr. Noel Kingsbury is internationally known as an innovator, writer and teacher in the garden world. He has worked on both private gardens and public spaces developing nature-inspired planting, and has written about garden design, planting (including 3 books with Dutch designer Piet Oudolf), green roofs and the politics of gardening. A great believer in using science to inform our gardening, Noel completed a PhD with the University of Sheffield in 2008. His latest enterprise is the world's first gardening soap opera (available for Kindle). He lives and gardens in the Welsh Borders near Hay-on-Wye.

www.noelkingsbury.com

"Kingsbury's garden writing is among the best you will find in the English language." From the blog View from Federal Twist, August 2, 2009, James R. Golden

http://www.noelkingsbury.com

Courses by author

- Planting Design with Perennials

Books by author

- Planting Design: Gardens in Time and Space
  
  Home gardeners with a keen interest in design, as well as professional landscape designers, will find invaluable advice in this new approach. The book focuses on the general principles behind creating successful and beautiful plant combinations in both time and space working with perennials in the context of trees, shrubs,...

- The New Perennial Garden
  
  This book is detailed in that it explains how best to work with the natural elements freely available to you. It explains which plants thrive in clay soils, sandy, dry, and overly moist. A great thing about this book is that it has lots of pictures for ideas and inspiration,...

- Natural Garden Style: Gardening Inspired by Nature
  
  In a world dominated more and more by urban development, nature is increasingly seen as an inspiration for gardeners. Sustainability and biodiversity, currently high on the world’s agenda, are important aspects of natural-style gardening. In this beautiful new book, gardening expert Noël Kingsbury considers a variety of approaches to making...

- Dig, Plant, Bitch
  
  Meet Petunia Martin, creator of Avalon Gardens and her neighbours Archibald and Rose Watkins-Smythe up at the historic garden of Mere Castle. Meet their respective gardeners: Bonzo the ex-heavy metal roadie and born-again Johnny Dalton, a local nurseryman or two and a cast of other colourful characters such as the...