The Garden Curator Field Notes is a new series of digital notebooks to guide your creative garden making. Field Notes draws on my parallel paths as a professional artist, horticulturist and garden designer, to help you see your garden and garden-making anew through an artist’s lens. There’s a lot of gardening info out there, but Field Notes is a little different to the rest; it’s a friendly conversation, and a gathering of thoughtful and artful garden ideas gleaned over my 30+ years of garden making and art practice. Regardless of where you are gardening the principles remain the same, and Field Notes can provide inspiration for your own gardening path.
Field Notes - Making a garden With Sculpted Plants digs into the creative and practical thinking behind gardening with hedges and topiary. It includes 58 pages filled with notes, illustrations and photos, exploring the ways I have used clipped forms in my home garden, and ideas for incorporating them into your own. Not a formal garden person? That’s ok, Making a Garden with Sculpted Plants is still relevant! My preferred garden style is wild and natural, though I use hedges and spheres within abundant informal gardens for contrast, framing, rhythm and more, and these ideas are all covered in this edition.
Within the pages you will find:
The roles informal and formal hedges and topiary can play in our gardens, and how to use them in creative and functional ways.
Notes on the hedge and topiary plant species I grow in my garden, and lists of alternative plants to consider for your needs and situation.
The creative use of topiary with a focus on spheres/domes.
Reflections on the use of clipped forms in both formal and informal garden settings.
Notes on hedge and topiary plant selection, planting, establishment and care.
Full colour images and illustrations to demonstrate the content, and lots more!
I’ll see you in the garden. Colleen x
The Garden Curator Field Notes is a new series of digital notebooks to guide your creative garden making. Field Notes draws on my parallel paths as a professional artist, horticulturist and garden designer, to help you see your garden and garden-making anew through an artist’s lens. There’s a lot of gardening info out there, but Field Notes is a little different to the rest; it’s a friendly conversation, and a gathering of thoughtful and artful garden ideas gleaned over my 30+ years of garden making and art practice. Regardless of where you are gardening the principles remain the same, and Field Notes can provide inspiration for your own gardening path.
Field Notes - Making a garden With Sculpted Plants digs into the creative and practical thinking behind gardening with hedges and topiary. It includes 58 pages filled with notes, illustrations and photos, exploring the ways I have used clipped forms in my home garden, and ideas for incorporating them into your own. Not a formal garden person? That’s ok, Making a Garden with Sculpted Plants is still relevant! My preferred garden style is wild and natural, though I use hedges and spheres within abundant informal gardens for contrast, framing, rhythm and more, and these ideas are all covered in this edition.
Within the pages you will find:
The roles informal and formal hedges and topiary can play in our gardens, and how to use them in creative and functional ways.
Notes on the hedge and topiary plant species I grow in my garden, and lists of alternative plants to consider for your needs and situation.
The creative use of topiary with a focus on spheres/domes.
Reflections on the use of clipped forms in both formal and informal garden settings.
Notes on hedge and topiary plant selection, planting, establishment and care.
Full colour images and illustrations to demonstrate the content, and lots more!
I’ll see you in the garden. Colleen x
