A Year of Splendor: The Gardens at Home Farm

by Dan Pearson, Nicola Browne (Photographer)

The author--a successful gardener--shares his experiences in the English countryside as he spends a year designing and building a four-acre garden.

Genres: Gardening

240 pages, Hardcover

First published January 4, 2001

About the author

Dan Pearson is an English landscape designer known for his pioneering work in naturalistic perennial planting. After early training at RHS Wisley, Kew Gardens, and the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, he founded his own design practice in 1987. His work spans private gardens, public landscapes, and international commissions, including Tokachi Millennium Forest in Japan and the restoration of Althorp’s grounds. He has received multiple RHS Chelsea Flower Show gold medals, was named Royal Designer for Industry, and has collaborated with prominent architects and artists. Pearson is also a writer, broadcaster, and the author of several acclaimed books on gardening.

Reviews

[Skyler · Rating 5 out of 5]

Full of inspiration about how to think about garden design, how to capture light and how to fit in to the feel and place of a garden. Not as completely and perfectly phenomenal as his later book, Home Ground. That is not a criticism; Home Ground is just so amazing.

While the cover is right, the title is wrong: It's The Garden: A Year at Home Farm.