Multidisciplinary Approaches to Resilient Landscapes Series
As part of our series on designing resilient landscapes, Pacific Horticulture collaborated with Garden Masterclass to bring you into the gardens of internationally recognized designers.
Pacific region gardeners will find commonalities with the site, soil, and sensibilities of these incredible designers and gardens.
Garden Surrealism: Color, Contrast, and Structure for a Postmodern World with Kurt Wilkinson
Kurt Wilkinson, a professional gardener and topiarist in Adelaide, South Australia has gained notoriety for constructing diverse plant mosaics he describes as “garden surrealism for a postmodern gardening world.” With a background in self-taught formal gardening techniques, Wilkinson creates striking gardens of tough and resilient climate selections integrated with highly controlled elements (enter his topiary background).
Designing for Year Round Interest in a Mediterranean Climate Garden
Imogen Checketts and Kate Dumbleton run a planting design business near Carcassonne in South-West France where they also have a small nursery of plants grown from their demonstration garden.
In this webinar, they will present a palette of plants for year-round interest that have thrived in their dry summer climate garden. There will be an emphasis on how they use colour, light, movement and structure to create gardens that are easy to maintain and require little or no watering in the medium- and long-term.
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Culture & Place; The Art of Process-led Design with Xanthe White
Xanthe White is a New Zealand designer second to none in her ability to articulate design issues. She uses the process of design itself as a key to her work.
Pacific region gardeners and designers will appreciate White’s passion for connecting people to nature and sense of place and for integrating native plants of conservation importance into garden spaces.
doxiadis+ and Terremoto, Mortal Humans, Enduring Landscapes: A Dialogue
With Thomas Doxiadis, Alexia Karakassis, David Godshall, and Alain Peauri
Do overly managed landscapes express fears of mortality and a false sense of stability? This not overly “controlled” dialogue between members of the Doxiadis+ and Terremoto landscape architecture teams explores leaping towards more naturalistic and resilient landscapes. Plant centric perspectives and sensibilities from California and Athens, Greece. This dynamic conversation will be followed by time for audience questions.
Gardens Under Big Skies
With Noel Kingsbury, Maayke de Ridde, and Martin Carrion van Rijn
Join us as we explore how the relationship between landscape and gardens in the Netherlands resonates under our own big skies and find out if these sustainable, livable outdoor spaces appeal to forward-looking garden designers like you. Hear from Noel Kingsbury about his new book, Gardens Under Big Skies: Reimagining Outdoor Space the Dutch Way with Photographs by Maayke de Ridde. Join us as we explore how the relationship between landscape and gardens in the Netherlands resonates under our own big skies.
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