Dan Pearson - Hillside


Dan Pearson is one of my favourite garden designers, so naturally his work has to feature on my blog. Pearson’s wealth of planting knowledge is so evident with the way he composes a landscape. The above image is one of my favourites to highlight this. There’s something so quintessentially British about this area with the rich greens and creams, this is probably due to the large range of native planting Pearson uses. It also frames the scenery behind so well. This is the house that Pearson lives at for large portions of the year, so the plants probably get much more attention than they would in the usual person’s garden. Planting is something I’m extremely interested in as I think an entire landscape can be shaped purely off the texture, colour, smell, size etc of the planting used. This is something I am working on in my own designs currently.




 

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