Noel kingsbury biography

Biography

I have been professionally active in horticulture since 1986, having been a keen gardener since childhood. The story of my ‘bunking off’ school on Tuesday afternoons to visit the Chelsea Flower Show has become something of a legend.

During 1986-1993 I ran a nursery near Bristol, growing herbaceous plants and tender species suitable for conservatories.

Biography.

Dr Nöel Kingsbury is an internationally known writer regarded as one of the prime architects of the ecological or naturalistic approach in modern planting.

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Noel Kingsbury is internationally known as an innovator, writer and teacher in the garden world.

Noel Kingsbury is a British garden designer and writer on gardening, plant sciences and related topics.

An interest in the latter put me firmly in the vanguard of ‘The New Exoticists’, a young generation of gardeners who were interested in pushing the limits of what it was possible to grow outside and recapturing something of the spirit of adventure of Victorian horticulture.

Undertaking a number of garden design projects during the 1990s, I began to explore the possibilities of growing plants in ‘artificial ecosystems’.

The problem was: "people were wanting wildflowers, but often had a hopelessly romantic notion of what that meant. The fact is that we (in Britain) have very few garden-worthy native plants, indeed we have