Noel Kingsbury
Noël Kingsbury is a British garden designer and garden writer.
Life
Even as a child Kingsburry was an avid gardener and skipped school to visit the Chelsea Flower Show. From 1986-1993 he ran a nursery in Bristol, where he expelled plants for winter gardens. Since the 1990s he also designed gardens. In 1994 he published his first book, The Indoor Gardener, which is inspired by his passion for exotic plants. Then he turned more and more to the perennial nursery and horticultural use of wild plants.
Kingsbury was awarded his doctorate in 2008 at the University of Sheffield in Garden Ecology ( horticultural ecology ), his doctoral thesis described the long-term performance of ornamental perennials (Long term performance of ornamental herbaceous vegetation ), ( Supervisor Prof. Nigel Dunnett ). His research continues on this subject. Kingsbury has lived since 2005 in the Welsh Marches in Montpelier Cottage near Hay-on- Wye, where he runs a garden and a B & B.
Kingsbury is very influenced by the German plant sociology. Among the garden designers, who influenced him, he calls in addition to Rosemarie White, the creator of the Munich Westpark, Roberto Burle Marx, whom he met in 1994, the American James van Sweden, one of the founders of the New Perennial Style, Cassian Schmidt and Piet Oudolf. As one of the few British garden authors he knows and admires Central European gardens and is familiar with the development in Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands.
It is mainly Kingsbury, has made known the Oudolf and his style of the New Perennial Gardens in the UK. In the jointly authored books comes the text of Kingsbury, while Oudolf the expertise and ideas provided. Kingsbury is working with well-known garden photographers such as Marianne Majerus and Andrea Jones.
Publications
Most of his works have been translated into German and French.
- The Wildflower Gardener 1994.
- The Indoor Gardener 1994.
- The New Perennial Garden. London, F. Lincoln, 1996.
- Dramatic effects with architectural plants. London, Mitchell Beazley, 1996.
- The Ultimate Planting Planner 1996.
- Design and Plant a Mixed Border. London, Ward Lock, 1997.
- Plants to transform your garden. London, Ward Lock, 1998.
- Conran Octopus gardener's factfile. London, Conran Octopus, 1999.
- Designing with Plants, Piet Oudolf with. London, Conran Octopus, 1999.
- Bold and Exotic Plants: Using Form and Shape to Create Visual Impact in the Garden. Watson- Guptill, 2000. ISBN 978-0823002863
- Grasses and bamboos: using form and shape to create visual impact in the garden (photographs Andrea Jones). London, Ryland Peters & Small, 2000.
- Natural Gardening for Small spaces. Portland, Timber Press, 2003. ISBN 978-0881925647
- Designing borders. London, Cassell Illustrated, 2003.
- Planting Green Roofs and Living Walls, by Nigel Dunnett. Portland, Timber Press 2004, 2nd edition 2008
- Gardens by design, Expert Advice from the World 's Leading Garden Designers. Portland, Timber Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0881927412
- VISTA: the culture and politics of the garden, Edited by Tim Richardson London 2005.
- Planting Design: Gardens in Time and Space, with Piet Oudolf. 2005
- Seedheads in the Garden (photographs Jo Whitworth ). Portland, Timber Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0881927962
- Natural garden style: garden inspired by nature (photographs Nicola Browne ). London, Merrell, 2009.
- Hybrid - The History and Science of Plant Breeding. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2009. ISBN 9780226437132
- Florescence: the world 's most beautiful flowers, with Clive Nichols. London, Merrell, 2010.
- Landscapes in Landscapes, Piet Oudolf with. London, Thames & Hudson, 2011.
- Planting: A New Perspective, with Piet Oudolf (2013 ), German Design meets nature, the modern gardens of Piet Oudolf. Stuttgart Hohenheim, Ulm, 2013. ISBN 978-3-8001-7960-2.