Elle Decoration UK - 09.2019

WORDS: NATASHA GOODFELLOW

SEPTEMBER 2019 ELLEDECORATION.CO.UK 183

Ever since Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf impressed with mixed plantings of

perennials and grasses at Norfolk’s Pensthorpe Natural Park in 2000, a desire

for more naturalistic planting has been creeping into the public consciousness.

Seasonal bedding and manicured gardens are out; wildlife-friendly meadows,

prairie-style plantings, ferneries and moss gardens are in. ‘Garden Wild’ (£32.50,

Rizzoli New York) by photographer Andre Baranowski shares his evocative

portraits of 12 gardens that embrace this approach, taking in spaces designed by

Oehme van Sweden, Fernando Caruncho, Jorge Sánchez and Piet Oudolf himself.

On the

WILD SIDE

THREE OF THE BEST

GARDEN WORKSHOPS

COLLAGE AND PAINTING

WITH ELLA DORAN

For her exhibition ‘Sheep to Seat,

Fleece to Floor’, designer Ella Doran

was inspired by the landscape

of Yorkshire Sculpture Park. She

shows how you can be too.

7 September, £85 (ysp.org.uk).

DAHLIA STUDY DAY

Once the preserve of horticultural

competitions and allotments, dahlias

are now on-trend. Find out all about

them, and how to grow them, at the

Salutation Gardens in Kent, home

to the National Collection of

dark-leaved dahlias. 10 September,

£90 (the-salutation.com).

NATURE PRINTING WITH

PIA OSTLUND

Nature printing was first developed

to help physicians study medicinal

plants. At Daylesford you can gather

ferns and foliage for your own

creations with designer and

printmaker Pia Östlund. 28

September, £165 (daylesford.com).

BLOOMING

LOVELY

If you like your flowers freshly picked,

sweetly scented and still glistening

with dew, Flowers from the Farm’s

first-ever ‘Big Weekend’ is for you.

From 16–18 August, more than 100

flower farmers from across the UK

will open their gates to showcase the

beautiful blooms they grow (think

nostalgic favourites such as pinks,

cosmos and cornflowers – a million

miles away from the usual shop finds),

as well as celebrating the seasonality

and lack of ‘flower miles’ involved in

their production. Highlights include

Green & Gorgeous (pictured) a

beautiful, established farm in

Oxfordshire; Little Paddock Flowers

near Swindon, which is offering

flower crown workshops; and

Tuckshop Flowers, a micro-grower

in Birmingham, showing just how

much can be achieved in a small

space (flowersfromthefarm.co.uk).

GARDENS /