Gabriella Pape
Gabriella Pape (born May 31, 1963 in Hamburg ) is a German garden architect .
Pape first trained at the Lorenz von Ehren tree nursery and then went to England to study horticulture and garden architecture. She graduated from the largest botanical garden in the world, Kew Gardens in London , and received a degree in landscape architecture from the University of Greenwich .
During her studies, she met the garden historian Isabelle van Groeningen, with whom she is together on business and private. Pape and Van Groeningen won a gold medal and the title of Best in Show from the Royal Horticultural Society in 2000 for their display garden at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show . At the Chelsea Flower Show , the unofficial world championship for horticulture, she was the only German to win the Silver Gilt medal in 2007 for her design of a cave garden .
Since 2008, she and Isabelle van Groeningen have headed the private company Königliche Gartenakademie in Altensteinstrasse in Berlin-Dahlem and also appears in the media - including the RBB - as a gardening expert. The greenhouses of the Garden Academy were built in 1902/1903 for the Royal Gardening College at the Wildlife Park near Potsdam , when the latter also moved to Dahlem on the occasion of the transfer of the Botanical Garden to the opposite site.
Fonts
- Step by step to the dream garden. Instructions for working with the garden designer . Callwey, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7667-1775-7 .
- Garden seduction. Fantastically beautiful gardens and their implementation . Callwey, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7667-1789-4 .
- My philosophy of living gardens. Irisiana, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-424-15033-9 .
- Gabriella Pape answers the most important gardening questions. Everything you always wanted to know about gardening . Callwey, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-7667-1953-9 . (Collection of articles from Welt am Sonntag and Berliner Morgenpost ).
- Why isn't my lilac blooming? Gabriella Pape answers the most important questions in the garden year . Callwey, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-7667-2135-8 .
- with Isabelle van Groeningen: Practical book garden design . Dorling Kindersley, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-8310-2782-8 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Gabriella Pape in the catalog of the German National Library
- The Royal Garden Academy. RBB , documentation by Horst Mager, first broadcast May 1, 2012
- About our founder. CV on the website of the Royal Garden Academy
- Close to the people and royal - the garden academy in Berlin-Dahlem. Interview with Gabriella Pape on Gartenradio Podcast, episode 114
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Without question, my greatest challenge." Interview in Handelsblatt from September 12, 2010. Retrieved on April 23, 2015.
- ↑ Silvia Meixner: Germany's best gardener. In: Die Welt, June 6, 2008. Retrieved April 23, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pape, Gabriella |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German garden architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 31, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |