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Learn about Tom’s process and approach to different types of planting, drawing on a range of recent projects, and benefit from his hard-won learnings.

“When I approach a planting project, I always start by thinking about character and the kind of ecological niche that the planting is going to occupy,” he says. “Part of this process is going to be to do with ground preparation, drainage and soil improvement. I think that most of the time we should accentuate the existing condition so you actually narrow the range of plants that might thrive in a given area.

“I will talk about how to apply this idea to a claggy woodland clearing in the Peak District and a parched hillside in the Balearics. I will talk successes and failures and how there is never just one solution.”
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Stephanie Mahon
Editor of Gardens Illustrated
Stephanie Mahon is the Editor of Gardens Illustrated and a writer on garden and landscape design. Twice winner of the Garden Media Guild Journalist of the Year Award, she has also written a book called Wild Gardens, published by HarperCollins.
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Tom Stuart-Smith
Landscape architect & garden designer
Tom Stuart-Smith is a landscape architect and garden designer whose work combines naturalism with modernity and built forms with romantic planting based on close observation of nature. He has designed gardens, parks and landscapes throughout the world.
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