Dan Pearson

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Dan Pearson (born April 9, 1964 in Hampshire ) is an English garden designer.

Life

Pearson is the son of a painter who taught art at Portsmouth Polytechnic and was an avid gardener. His mother taught fashion and textile design. Already at the age of five he became interested in plants and began to garden. In 1976 his father took him to the Chelsea Flower Show and he was impressed by the Beth Chatto stand . He left school with the middle school leaving certificate (O-levels) and completed September 1981-1983 in the garden of the Royal Horticultural Society in Wisley in Woking the Certificate Course . At the age of 17 he designed his first garden for Frances Mossman, a friend of his mother's. In June 1973 he made his first trip to collect plants in the national park on the Picos de Europa in the Cantabrian Mountains of north-western Spain. There he saw, among other things, the Turk's League , orchids and dog teeth in their natural environment on the mountain meadows . Pearson then sat on a scholarship in the Botanical Garden of Jerusalem , from where he went on many excursions and undertook a study trip to the Himalayas . He then worked for a year in the Edinburgh Botanical Gardens , in the rock garden and in the forest garden. He was then trained for three years at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew .

In 1987 he started his own business. 1990–1992 he worked for Conran Shop as a garden designer and consultant. He now runs his own office, "The Nursery". It was set up by Conran & Partners in the former school "The Chandlery" near Waterloo . In 2008 he had seven employees. The team also includes trained landscape architects who are familiar with building planning and building permits.

Pearson wrote weekly columns for the Sunday Times , the Daily Telegraph and, since 2006, for the Observer , succeeding jewelry designer Monty Don, and is also a member of the editorial staff of Gardens Illustrated. The handsome Pearson has appeared in various television series since 1993, which were broadcast by BBC Two (Gardeners World), Channel 4 (Garden Doctors, 1994-1995) and Channel 5 and was also represented on the radio. The program “Garden Doctors” belongs to the genre of the genre of “garden makeover shows”, which is particularly popular in the UK, but also in the USA, in which private gardens are remodeled by a team of experts, not always to their advantage . However, it differs from comparable programs by Allan Titchmarsh , for example , in that not only private gardens of terraced houses and country estates, but also community gardens, eco-gardens and green facades were looked after and some projects lasted several years. For the television program "Gardener's World" he designed a garden in Kings Heath Park in Birmingham in 1998, as did John Brookes and Bonita Bulaitis .

Bonnington Square Community Garden London in 2013

Pearson has designed six gardens at the Chelsea Flower Show since 1992 , including the Merrill Lynch Garden in 2004 and in 1996 won a Silver Medal for “A London Roof garden for the Nineties”. It contained silver birch , beach carnation and fescue in large round steel containers, herbs and wild plants such as weaver's card and mullein against a bright red background. Meanwhile, Pearson rejected these temporary show gardens as too artificial and preferred to focus on permanent gardens. In 2015 he designed the Laurent Perrier - Chatsworth Garden, which was named the best garden in the exhibition. It contained stones and plants from Chatsworth and was in a naturalistic style. After the exhibition, the plants were brought back to Chatsworth.

Pearson lived in Bonnington Square in Vauxhall , where he designed a roof garden . In addition to Mediterranean plants such as lavender and fennel and grasses, exotic plants such as the South African torch lilies and the Patagonian verbena made popular by Christopher Lloyd grew here . He also campaigned for the preservation of the local Bonnington Square Garden and helped redesign it with Jimmy Frazer. He then moved into a row house in Peckham , south London, with his partner, Huw Morgan, the office manager of his office . In his book "Home Ground" He described how he gradually became a very relaxed and informal garden full of flowers, shrubs and trees transformed the overgrown back garden and also an allotment ( allotment ) for operation. The development of the garden was documented by the photographer Howard Sooley. In the meantime, Pearson and Morgan have moved to Somerset , where they work an 8 hectare garden in a former vegetable farm 10 km north of Bath in Hillside. The development of his garden there has been the subject of his Sunday column in the Observer since 2012.

Debra Prinzing describes Pearson as the "horticultural rock star in the UK". He is also known as the Greta Garbo of the garden world.

Memberships and honors

Pearson is a member of the Society of Garden Designers and has been an honorary member of the Royal Institute of British Architects since 2011 .

Pearson was never a judge of the more conservative RHS and feels rejected by the British gardening establishment. The Garden Museum in Lambeth dedicated an exhibition to his work in 2013. Pearson won a gold medal and "Best in Show" in 2015 at the Chelsea Flower Show with Chatsworth Garden. The judge James Alexander-Sinclair described the garden as "beautifully designed" and praised natural details such as the old leaves on the ground, which distinguishes the garden from the licked and meticulously cleaned normal exhibition gardens.

style

Pearson works in the tradition of the "New Perennial Style" by Wolfgang Oehme and Piet Oudolf . He knows the needs of his plants well and puts them together accordingly. He often used native wild plants, especially perennials, and also introduced perennials in small urban gardens. Rounded walls give his early gardens a rhythmic design. Only its vegetable and fruit gardens are often formally designed. With the use of perennials and grasses, he introduced German and Dutch elements into the conservative English gardening tradition. Pearson also incorporated Japanese elements into his style, although in practice he has difficulties with the Japanese mentality.

Pearson is known to its gardens and landscape unobtrusively adapted and not the British tradition of ornamental gardens with "mixed border" ( mixed borders ) in the tradition of Jekyll and Lloyd followed. He tries to respond to the ideas of his clients. To Pearson, imperfection is beautiful. He rejects perfect gardens and “uptight minimalism ”, but he does appreciate the work of the Spanish minimalist Fernando Caruncho . Even Beth Chatto influenced his style.

Pearson values ​​warm colors in the garden, especially red, rust red and golden yellow, and often uses wild plants. His favorite plants include mullein , day lily “Stafford”, Patagonian verbena and the ornamental grass Stipa tenuissima , among the useful plants hazel and wild rocket .

Publications

  • with Steve Bradley: Garden Doctors, a Channel Four Book. Boxtree 1996. ISBN 978-0752210292
  • with Terence Conran: The Essential Garden Book, getting back to basics. Clarkson Potter 1998.
  • The Garden: A Year at Home Farm. London, BBC Books 2001.
  • Spirit: Garden Inspiration. London, Murray & Sorrell FUEL 2009.
  • Home Ground: Sanctuary in the City (photography Howard Sooley). Octopus Publishing 2011.

Gardens

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Guardian
  2. ↑ a b Dan Pearson ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , RHS  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rhs.org.uk
  3. ^ A b c Sally Court: The modern garden makers. London, Ward Lock 1999, 105
  4. ^ Dan Pearson: Garden Inspiration. London, Murray & Sorrell FUEL, Dec.
  5. ^ Dan Pearson: Garden Inspiration. London, Murray & Sorrell FUEL, Jan.
  6. ^ Diana Ross: Gardeners, Encounters with exceptional people. London, Frances Lincoln 2008, 156
  7. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/apr/12/plants-in-their-natural-habitat-dogs-tooth-violet
  8. ^ Diana Ross: Gardeners, Encounters with exceptional people. London, Frances Lincoln 2008, 158
  9. ^ Diana Ross: Gardeners, Encounters with exceptional people. London, Frances Lincoln 2008, 159
  10. ^ Dan Pearson, Steve Bradley: Garden Doctors, a Channel Four Book. Boxtree 1996
  11. ^ Sally Court: The modern garden makers. London, Ward Lock 1999, 108
  12. ↑ gardenvisit.com
  13. ^ Diana Ross: Gardeners, Encounters with exceptional people. London, Frances Lincoln 2008, 154f.
  14. ↑ a b https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/apr/24/dan-pearson-city-gardens
  15. ↑ http://www.bonningtonsquaregarden.org.uk/
  16. ^ Sally Court: The modern garden makers. London, Ward Lock 1999, 107
  17. ^ Dan Pearson: Spirit: Garden Inspiration. London, Murray & Sorrell FUEL 2009, 94
  18. ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/10173019/Dan-Pearson-the-green-fuse-that-launched-a-gardening-star.html
  19. ^ The Guardian
  20. ^ The Guardian
  21. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/series/danpearsonongardens
  22. ↑ gardenconservancy ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , latimes.com  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gardenconservancy.org
  23. ↑ a b Jon Pryn: Designer Pearson bridges the years with best in show award at Chelsea. Evening Standard, May 19, 2015, May 11
  24. ^ Diana Ross: Gardeners, Encounters with exceptional people. London, Frances Lincoln 2008, 155
  25. ^ Sally Court: The modern garden makers. London, Ward Lock 1999, 110
  26. ↑ Janet Waymark: Modern garden design. Innovation since 1900. London, Thames and Hudson 2003, 232.
  27. ↑ latimes.com
  28. ^ Diana Ross: Gardeners, Encounters with exceptional people. London, Frances Lincoln 2008, 160f.
  29. ^ Diana Ross: Gardeners, Encounters with exceptional people. London, Frances Lincoln 2008, 162
  30. ^ Diana Ross: Gardeners, Encounters with exceptional people. London, Frances Lincoln 2008, 161
  31. ↑ a b telegraph.co.uk
  32. ^ Sally Court: The modern garden makers. London, Ward Lock 1999, 111
  33. ↑ Anna Pavord, Wrapping Up. Gardens Illustrated December 2018, 56–63
  34. ^ Sally Court: The modern garden makers. London, Ward Lock 1999, 112
  35. ^ The Guardian
personal data
SURNAME Pearson, Dan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English garden designer
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Hampshire