Noël Kingsbury
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Noël Kingsbury is a leading exponent of contemporary naturalistic planting design. He has always been firmly in the vanguard of new developments, playing a major role in popularizing a more naturalistic and sustainable planting style, and is a well-known writer on plants and gardens.
He wrote Designing with Plants with designer Piet Oudolf and is associated with the Landscape Department at the University of Sheffield as part of his active involvement in promoting quality planting in public spaces. A lover of wild spaces and wildflowers growing in their natural environment, Noël emphasizes growing gardens in a way that expresses this passion. He is especially fond of the way plants group naturally when left to their own devices.
Noël loves discovering good examples of large-scale, natural-style gardens or plantings that clearly evoke nature. He is pleased to be part of the naturalistic planting movement and believes that “Gardening for myself and for a lot of people is an opportunity to be close to nature.”
Noël has published 11 books and resides in the U.K.
[edit] Publications
- Kingsbury, Noël. Seedheads in the Garden. Timber Press: Portland, 2006. ISBN 9780881927962.
- Kingsbury, Noël. Natural Gardening in Small Spaces. Paperback. Timber Press: Portland, 2006. ISBN 9780881928150.
- Kingsbury, Noël. Gardens by Design. Timber Press: Portland, 2005. ISBN 9780881927412.
- Oudolf, Piet, and Noël Kingsbury. Planting Design: Gardens in Time and Space. Timber Press: Portland, 2005. ISBN 9780881927405.
- Dunnett, Nigel, and Noël Kingsbury. Planting Green Roofs and Living Walls. Timber Press: Portland, 2004. ISBN 9780881926408.
