Noel Kingsbury is a British
garden designer
A garden designer is someone who designs the plan and features of gardens, either as an amateur or professional. The compositional elements of garden design and landscape design are: terrain, water, planting, constructed elements and buildings, p ...
and writer on gardening, plant sciences and related topics. He is best known for his promotion of naturalistic planting design in gardens and designed landscapes (e.g. the 1996 publication of 'The New Perennial Garden', pub. Frances Lincoln, London), and his collaboration with Dutch garden and landscape designer
Piet Oudolf
Piet Oudolf (; born 27 October 1944) is a Dutch garden designer, nurseryman and author. He is a leading figure of the "New Perennial" movementhis designs and plant compositions using bold drifts of herbaceous perennials and grasses which are cho ...
on books on planting design. He writes occasionally for ''
The Daily Telegraph
''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.
It was fo ...
'', ''Gardens Illustrated'' magazine and ''The Garden'' - the membership magazine of the
Royal Horticultural Society
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), founded in 1804 as the Horticultural Society of London, is the UK's leading gardening charity.
The RHS promotes horticulture through its five gardens at Wisley (Surrey), Hyde Hall (Essex), Harlow Carr (Nort ...
. He has worked with Prof. Nigel Dunnett, of the University of Sheffield on the first book in English on green roof and related 'green architecture' technologies.
In collaboration with
Tim Richardson Kingsbury has edited ''Vista, the Culture and Politics of Gardens'' and co-chairs events at the
Garden Museum
The Garden Museum (formerly known as the Museum of Garden History) in London is Britain's only museum of the art, history and design of gardens. The museum re-opened in 2017 after an 18-month redevelopment project.
The building is largely th ...
in London under the title 'Vista'. He has worked with several notable garden photographers, such as
Marianne Majerus and
Andrea Jones.
Kingsbury earned a doctorate from the
University of Sheffield
, mottoeng = To discover the causes of things
, established = – University of SheffieldPredecessor institutions:
– Sheffield Medical School – Firth College – Sheffield Technical School – University College of Sheffield
, type = Pu ...
in 2009, for a thesis on the ''Long term performance of ornamental herbaceous vegetation''. He continues to research in this area.
Kingsbury has also written a history of
plant breeding
Plant breeding is the science of changing the traits of plants in order to produce desired characteristics. It has been used to improve the quality of nutrition in products for humans and animals. The goals of plant breeding are to produce cro ...
, ''Hybrid, The History and Science of Plant Breeding'' (2009).
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Planting: A New Perspective, with Piet Oudolf' (2013)
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British gardeners
British garden writers
Living people
20th-century British writers
21st-century British writers
Alumni of the University of Sheffield
20th-century British male writers
Year of birth missing (living people)