Tom Stuart-Smith

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Tom Stuart-Smith (* 1960 ) is an English garden designer.

Life

Tom Stuart-Smith, son of Joan and Murray Stuart-Smith, grew up with his five siblings on the Home Farm farm on Serge Hill in the parish of St. Stephen in Abbots Langley near St Albans in Hertfordshire , which his grandfather Tom Motion in 1927 bought. The estate is already listed on the tithe map from 1848. Today it is not far from an exit of the M25 .

Stuart-Smith studied zoology at Cambridge . After meeting Lanning Roper and Geoffrey Jellicoe , he decided to study landscape architecture in 1982 and earned an MA in Manchester . He then worked for Colvin and Moggridge, Michael Brown and Elizabeth Banks Associates. Also Penelope Hobhouse gave him orders.

After his marriage in 1986, his parents converted a 17 m long wooden barn from the 17th century on their farm into a home for him and his wife. From 1989 onwards, Murray Stuart-Smith laid out a large garden around the barn, which Tom Stuart-Smith soon redesigned. He tore out the rose garden that was only laid out in 1991 and planted it with perennials.

The couple have three children, Rose, Ben and Harry.

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Pond in the walled garden at Broughton Grange, Oxfordshire

Tom Stuart-Smith has gardened since he was 16. He has been designing gardens on a professional basis since 1980, his first major assignment was Broughton Grange in Oxfordshire in 2000, which now belongs to the scandalous RBS banker Stephen Hester . In 1996 he founded Tom Stuart-Smith Ltd., which has seven employees.

Barn Garden

Tom Stuart-Smith has published a book about the Barn Garden together with his wife. He laid out a meadow of flowers behind the house. His joy in it was spoiled by a cousin who called the vegetation "highway daisies". After that, he made sure not here daisies , but only "better" Wild flowers such as Marsh and cowslips grew. In 1998 the couple laid out a vegetable garden that Sue Stuart-Smith looks after. The courtyard of their house was originally planted with hedges, but Tom and Harry Stuart-Smith removed them with chainsaws in 2007. They filled up part of the site and installed the rusty Corten basins from Tom Stuart-Smith's Chelsea garden from 2006, which was supposed to symbolize the encounter between the romantic and the modern. It is planted with astrantia , milkweed, ornamental sage "Ostfriesland" and bearded iris. There are also multicolored tulips and daffodils. The garden is looked after by a gardener. In the redesign of the garden, Stuart-Smith used over 1500 m 2 of plant toxins ( glyphosate ) on a large area in order to save work.

The garden is open to the public as part of Serge Hill Gardens under the National Gardens Scheme .

More gardens

style

Wisley 2014, prairie garden around the Jubilee Greenhouse

In his early days, Tom Stuart-Smith was mainly influenced by classic English country house gardens such as Sissinghurst and Hidcote . In his early phase he used classic cottage garden plants such as double peonies , roses and geraniums in pastel shades. Today he calls this his "pink plush phase". Later he mainly used brightly colored exotic species such as Kniphofia . In the 1980s he was mainly influenced by the Thijssepark in Mastelveen , today the work of Piet Oudolf and Cassian Schmidt in the Hermannshof in Weinheim . Since the 1990s, he has increasingly used perennials and biennial plants such as mullein and opium poppies . Even very large, Stuart-Smith prefers large plants such as giant fennel , elephant , donkey thistle , mullein, mallow, hairline and eremurus . He likes plants "that look him in the face". He believes that tall plants make a garden appear larger. Stuart-Smith also designed public green spaces when he was with Michael Brown, but believes his talents lie in the field of private gardens.

Stuart-Smith describes his current style as exaggerated ( supernormal ) naturalism, in which he uses cultivated forms of native plants and imitates natural ecotopes in a more dramatic form. He wants to deconstruct the concept of the garden until only one central horticultural theme remains, which is then evenly distributed over the entire garden. He restricts exotic plants to the area directly around the house. In 2011, however, he created a prairie in the Barn Garden with North American plants such as rudbeckia, coneflower and gold rush. Stuart-Smith also designed easy-care city gardens with ferns and the Tasmanian tree fern, which is now endangered in nature (Scott Sullivan's and Anna Marrs garden in north London and the Courtyard Garden of the Royal Academy in London).

Stuart-Smith rejects the system of garden spaces, as it was popularized in England by Sackville-West and Johnston . He wants gardens that represent a continuum. To do this, he uses a few types of plants in carefully selected shades that are used repeatedly and ribbon-like plantings. He has now banned delphiniums, old types of roses, Kniphofia, vinegar roses and carnations from his gardens. However, he also appreciates the style of William Kent , e.g. B. Rousham in Oxfordshire. He names Echinacea purpurea , Cornus kousa , Hakonechloa macra , Molinia caerulea and Buxus sempervirens as favorite plants . In addition there are Eupatorium maculatum and Stipa calamagrostis . Burgundy, purple and brown tones dominate his gardens.

Stuart-Smith's style has been described as "brutal". The gardening journalist Noel Kingsbury , however, believes that Stuart-Smith carried over the classic English flower borders into the 21st century.

The Garden Museum in Lambeth dedicated an exhibition to his work in 2011.

Prices

Tom Stuart-Smith first took part in the Chelsea Flower Show in 1998 and won a total of eight gold medals.

literature

  • Tom and Sue Stuart-Smith, The Barn Garden, making a Place. Abbots Langley, Serge Hills Books 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 7, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bbc.co.uk
  2. ↑ Noel Kingsbury, Garde Designers at Home. The private spaces of the world's leading designers. London, Pavillon Books 2011, 175
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 7, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bbc.co.uk
  4. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2012/jan/30/stephen-hesters-country-estate
  5. ↑ http://www.tomstuartsmith.co.uk/practice/team.html
  6. ↑ Tom and Sue Stuart-Smith, The Barn Garden, making a place. Serge Hills Books 2011, 59
  7. ↑ Tom and Sue Stuart-Smith, The Barn Garden, making a place. Serge Hills Books 2011, 59
  8. ↑ Noel Kingsbury, Garde Designers at Home. The private spaces of the world's leading designers. London, Pavillon Books 2011, 175
  9. ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/9555597/How-to-sow-your-own-exotic-meadow.html
  10. ↑ http://www.hertfordshirelife.co.uk/homes-gardens/gardens/hertfordshire_s_secret_gardens_1_1637601
  11. ↑ http://www.homesandproperty.co.uk/your_home_and_garden/outdoors/newgardenattheroyalacademy.html
  12. ↑ Carolyn Fry, A Passion for Plants. Behind the scenes at the Royal Horticultural society (London, BBC Books 2007) 69
  13. ↑ Tom and Sue Stuart-Smith, The Barn Garden, making a place. Serge Hills Books 2011, 37
  14. ↑ "fluffy pink stage," Tim Richardson in 2013, The New English Garden. London, Francis Lincoln, 26
  15. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/jul/04/towering-plants-gardens
  16. ↑ Tom and Sue Stuart-Smith, The Barn Garden, making a place. Serge Hills Books 2011, 41
  17. ↑ Noel Kingsbury, Garde Designers at Home. The private spaces of the world's leading designers. London, Pavillon Books 2011, 175
  18. ↑ Tom and Sue Stuart-Smith, The Barn Garden, making a place. Serge Hills Books 2011, 38
  19. ^ Tim Richardson 2013, The New English Garden. London, Francis Lincoln, 26
  20. ↑ Tom and Sue Stuart-Smith, The Barn Garden, making a place. Serge Hills Books 2011, 67
  21. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/aug/19/wild-urban-garden-tom-stuart-smith
  22. ↑ http://www.homesandproperty.co.uk/your_home_and_garden/outdoors/newgardenattheroyalacademy.html
  23. ^ Tim Richardson 2013, The New English Garden. London, Francis Lincoln, 25
  24. ↑ Tom and Sue Stuart-Smith, The Barn Garden, making a place. Serge Hills Books 2011, 37
  25. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 7, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bbc.co.uk
  26. ↑ Noel Kingsbury, Garde Designers at Home. The private spaces of the world's leading designers. London, Pavillon Books 2011, 182 f.
  27. ↑ Tom and Sue Stuart-Smith, The Barn Garden, making a place. Serge Hills Books 2011, 38
  28. ↑ Noel Kingsbury, Garde Designers at Home. The private spaces of the world's leading designers. London, Pavillon Books 2011, 174
  29. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gallery/2011/aug/19/gardens-tom-stuart-smith-in-pictures
  30. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gallery/2011/aug/19/gardens-tom-stuart-smith-in-pictures
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SURNAME Stuart-Smith, Tom
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English garden designer
DATE OF BIRTH 1960