Noel Kingsbury

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Noel Kingsbury

Noël Kingsbury is a British horticultural architect and author.

Life

Kingsbury is the son of a children's author. His parents owned the walled garden of a manor house that his early retired father looked after. His mother was a great connoisseur of wildflowers. As a child, Kingsbury was an avid gardener and skipped school to attend the Chelsea Flower Show . Kingsbury initially taught English as a foreign language. From 1986 to 1992 he ran a nursery near Bristol , where he sold plants for winter gardens. He has also designed gardens since the 1990s. In 1994 he published his first book, "The Indoor Gardener", which was inspired by his enthusiasm for exotic plants. Then he turned more and more to perennial gardening and the horticultural use of wild plants.

Kingsbury received his PhD in horticultural ecology from the University of Sheffield in 2008 , his doctoral thesis described the long- term performance of ornamental herbaceous vegetation , supervisor Prof. Nigel Dunnett . He continues to do research on the subject. Kingsbury has lived in the Welsh Marches at Montpelier Cottage in the Valley of the Wye near Hay-on-Wye , where he has a garden and a B&B , since 2005 with his wife, Jo Elliot . He lives in a former farm workers house with 1.8 hectares of land. Kingsbury has laid out a garden of 3000 m 2 here . This is divided into terraces by parallel paths and mainly contains perennials. He is looked after by a part-time gardener. The garden includes a test area where Kingsbury examines new plants for their suitability for gardening. Kingsbury also works as a gardening tour guide. His favorite plant is the fire herb .

style

Kingsbury is very influenced by German plant sociology. Among the garden designers who influenced him, he names 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 gardening authors, he knows and admires Central European gardens and is familiar with developments in Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands.

Publications

It is Kingsbury in particular who introduced Oudolf and his New Perennial Garden style to the UK. In the jointly authored books, the text is from Kingsbury, while Oudolf provided the expertise and ideas. Kingsbury works with well-known garden photographers such as Marianne Majerus and Andrea Jones .

Most of his works have also 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, with Piet Oudolf. 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, with 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 with Tim Richardson London 2005.
  • Planting Design: Gardens in Time and Space, with Piet Oudolf. 2005
  • Seedheads in the Garden (Photographs by Jo Whitworth). Portland, Timber Press 2006. ISBN 978-0881927962
  • Natural garden style: gardening inspired by nature (photographs by 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.
  • Garden Designers at Home, The Private Spaces of the World's Leading Designers. Pavilion 2011. ISBN 9781862058422
  • Landscapes in Landscapes, with Piet Oudolf. London, Thames & Hudson, 2011.
  • Planting: A New Perspective, with Piet Oudolf (2013), German design meets nature, the modern gardens of Piet Oudolf. Stuttgart Hohenheim, Ulmer, 2013. ISBN 978-3-8001-7960-2 .
  • Garden flora. Timber Press 2016, ISBN 978-1604695656
  • New Small Garden: Contemporary principles, planting and practice, London, Frances Lincoln 2016.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Noel Kingsbury: Biography. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 18, 2012 ; accessed on November 28, 2013 (English). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.noelkingsbury.com
  2. ↑ https://de.scribd.com/doc/91873840/Ein-Garten-ist-nie-naturlich
  3. ↑ Stephen Anderton, Perennials take charge. The Garden 4/2015, 93-96

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personal data
SURNAME Kingsbury, Noel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kingsbury, Noël
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British garden architect and author
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century