![]() Dr Noel Kingsbury and I have been collaborators for over 25 years, and Noel will be with you in the classroom marking your work, while Noel and I developed and filmed the course materials together. I have a large presence on instagram, and I'm excited to share my work through teaching on Learning with Experts. ![]() I love using my iphone to capture videos and photos as I work. It comes as a surprise to some people that I'm also an early adopter of some technologies. As my design style progressed I have focused on the perennial meadow, mimicking nature in my planting style. My wife and I first opened a nursery in Hummelo, the Netherlands back in the 1980s, this is where my planting style emerged with strong block-type groupings based on structure and texture as much as colour. ![]() I'm probably best known as the landscape designer from the Netherlands! And I consider myself along with Noel Kingsbury as one of the leading figures of the ‘New Perennial’ or ‘New Wave Planting’ movement, using bold blocks of perennials and grasses to create Prairie style designs. I looked at landscape gardening as a career alternative to my family business of catering. "Structure is the most important component in a successful planting colour is important too but it is a secondary consideration" ![]()
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