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In this exclusive talk for Gardens Illustrated, garden designer @sarahpricelandscapes will share insights into her working process, discussing how she creates gardens out of unexpected resources and sources of inspiration, drawing on her training and love of art and untended landscapes 💚

Join us for Sarah’s masterclass:
🗓️ Thursday 19 November
⏰ 7pm
📍 Online
🎟️ £16 (or save by booking the series)

Comment LINK for more info and the booking link sent straight to your DMs 🔗

📹 @room_of_light

#masterclass #video #learning #gardening #gardens

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The Creative Gardeners! We recreated the cover photo for this brilliant book by @hortihack and @room_of_light - available now - celebrating the creativity of gardeners! It’s a real joy to be featured @kneppwildland amongst a selection of 27 inspiring and imaginative gardeners, and the beautiful gardens they sculpt.

(Each member of our team at Knepp worked in other creative industries before moving into horticulture: Architecture, acting, advertising, film, and prop/set design.)

First pic by Peter Venner (another creative gardener)

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so honoured to be featured in the great new book by @hortihack with stunning photography by @room_of_light 📸
available in the shops and online now. Featuring the life stories of 29 ‘hortists’!

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Thank you to the wonderful team @charlestontrust for organising the perfect evening, the garden was looking fabulous in the evening light and the private tour of the house was a real treat! Thank you to @hortihack @nigelslater & @sarahpricelandscapes for saying yes to this wonderful evening celebrating The Creative Gardener.

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Thank you to each and everyone who came to @charlestontrust last night, and a huge thank you to @nigelslater @sarahpricelandscapes and @hortihack for saying yes to this idea of a having a celebration of Stephanie Mahon’s and @room_of_light book The Creative Gardener.

We had a lot of fun!

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Well, that’s been a nice surprise.

The Creative Gardener book hasn’t even been out a week yet, but we’ve had such an amazing response already.

Maybe that is because it is not, as some astute people have pointed out, your typical gardens book. Of which I will go into in more detail in a future post.

It does, however, still feature exquisite and exciting and elegant growing spaces for avid armchair gardeners and garden fanciers.

Here, for your enjoyment, are a selection from the book - all shot by @room_of_light - beginning with the flower farm of Green and Gorgeous.

Swipe for more inspiring gardens ➡️

A calm but captivating little tableau in designer Sarah Price’s own garden in South Wales.

The Rubble Garden created from the remains of an old power station at Birch Farm in Devon.

How to frame a view masterclass at Sculpture by the Lakes in Dorset.

The sweetest garden room and greenhouse in the garden of media maven Farrah Storr in Kent.

A small DIY natural swimming pond made by designer Will Tomson in his own garden near Sheffield

Wildscaping at John Little and Fiona Crummay’s Hilldrop garden in Essex.

Discover many more, and more unusual, gardens and growing spaces in The Creative Gardener book, out now - link in bio and Stories.

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To celebrate The Creative Gardener book going on sale a few days ago, we are sharing some of our favourite portraits of the people featured inside its pages.

If you want to see more and buy a copy, you can find a link in bio

First up, Dean Charlton of Hooton’s Walled Nursery

Kyla La Grange, musician and garden designer

Jenny ‘Niff’ Barnes, rose sculptor

Errol Reuben Fernandes, head of horticulture at the Horniman Museum

Alice Vincent, writer

Nigel Slater, cook and writer

Kaori Tatebayashi, ceramic artist

John Little, innovative ecological gardener

Rosanna Morris, printmaker

Matthew Rice, watercolour artist

Jimi Blake, plantsman and gardener

All images by @room_of_light

And there are so many more in the book, with fascinating stories and inspiring ways of working.

Hit the follow button now to see our Meet the Creative Gardeners series of films and go to link in my bio to find ways to buy or book tickets to our launch on Tuesday 13 October @gardenmuseum

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Huge congratulations to @hortihack & @room_of_light for their beautiful book, published today, called Creative Gardeners. It features inspiring people and remarkable gardens and it is wonderful to be part of it with our beautiful space @hepworthwakefield.

See link in bio for our gift shop selection of gardening books.

#hepworthwakefield #creativegardeners #gardeningbooks

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Rachel Siegfried started Green & Gorgeous, her flower farm and floral design studio in south Oxfordshire, 17 years ago, and now looks after five acres of organic flowers for cutting.

She still clearly remembers cutting her first bunch of cut flowers. “I loved how it encapsulated the garden in one handful, and seeing how the flowers worked together in the border, but also in the vase. I love that translation, and how you can then look at things closely when you have them in your home, and appreciate those plants in detail.

“Some people think that you are wasting them when you cut them for the house, but I see it as going deeper; getting to know the plant even more.”

This is an excerpt from the new book The Creative Gardener: Inspiring People, Remarkable Gardens which goes on sale today. Find out about more of the talented ‘hortists’ in the book in an extract in this month’s edition and the website of @gardens_illustrated

Buy your copy now at the link in @hortihack bio or Story 🙏🏻

📷 & 🎥 @room_of_light

This film is Episode 8 of our Meet the Creative Gardeners series, bringing the featured gardeners and gardens from the book to life.

Hit the follow button now for more calming glimpses into their green sanctuaries, and insights into their work and gardening practice.

#creativegardeners #newbook #gardenwriting #gardenartist

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Today I wanted to share something really exciting (for me!) with you! @hortihack - Stephanie Mahon, has created the most beautiful book, interviewing all her favourite creative gardeners and somehow she invited me to be join the cohort!

It’s an incredible piece of work, filled with so much magic and inspiration and some of the most inspiring people, all photographed by the immensely talented @room_of_light - John Campbell. I’m beyond honoured I got to be included, bawled over in fact and I highly recommended you get your hands on a copy.

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Today there was an extract of my new book The Creative Gardener splashed across The Telegraph magazine, the chapter on the wonderful @damsonfarm with lovely photos by @room_of_light

I had completely forgotten this was happening thanks to a busy day involving a birthday party and a million other things, but we managed to grab a copy as the shop closed this evening to see it for ourselves.

I am not sure if anyone will buy the book off the back of this sort of exposure, but we can keep our fingers crossed in hope.

Preorder now at the link in bio if it looks like your cup of tea. Properly out on 1 October in the UK and 29 Sept in the US.

New Meet the Creative Gardeners film dropping soon - ooooo who will it be this time?!

#thecreativegardeners #hortists #newbook #creativegardener

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Follow Katy Merrington on social media and you’re sure to see one of her occasional videos portraying elements of her role as cultural gardener at The Hepworth Wakefield gallery’s garden.

Whether it’s showing off her pimped-up hand pallet truck in the style of Top Gear, or reading someone’s dropped shopping list as a surrealist poem, these humorous nuggets give a small window into her wonderfully whimsical mindset.

Katy came on board as the garden was being built, and the planting was completed just as the Covid lockdowns hit. The novel idea of being a gardener of a gallery appealed to her, as a callback to her years studying fine art in uni and trying to forge a career afterwards doing “all sorts of funny, weird things” from freelance film making to architectural lighting.

“Gardening is creative,” she says. But a garden doesn’t have the same insurable, marketable value as a sculpture or painting, meaning you can’t sell it for an ever-increasing price, she points out. Maybe that’s why gardening isn’t held in such high regard as other branches of the arts.

Where the garden has the edge over the artwork in the gallery is how accessible it is not just to visitors but to locals, who can come and enjoy this extraordinary slice of public greenspace any time they like, for nothing.

“In my art, I was always into suspension of disbelief, and I realise I’m still interested in this, because that is what gardens do. They say, ‘Come into this little paradise - it’s better here’. How they do that, and how much it takes to do that, are questions that still interest me.”

Excerpt from the new book The Creative Gardener: Inspiring People, Remarkable Gardens, with beautiful photography and film by @room_of_light
Out 1 October, but please do consider pre-ordering now at the link in my bio.

This film is Episode 7 of our Meet the Creative Gardeners series, bringing the featured gardeners and gardens from the book to life.

Hit the follow button now for more calming glimpses into their green sanctuaries, and insights into their work and gardening practice.

#creativegardeners #newbook #gardenwriting #gardenartist

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