Roger Turner is a British
garden design
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er and writer of
gardening-related
non-fiction
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books. He trained as an architect, and now practises as a
garden designer
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in
Gloucestershire
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The county town is the city of Gl ...
.
["Davidson Symposium to tackle growing problems"]
Farm & Garden, '' The Times-News'', 29 January 2007, p. 6C. He lectures widely on garden subjects, and is the author of several gardening books.
Turner has given talks in the UK, Ireland and the US on a wide range of gardening subjects, specialising in perennials of all kinds, garden design and garden history. He trained as an architect and now works as a
landscape design
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er. He is a knowledgeable
plantsman
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, active in the Hardy Plant Society, and a founding member of the Gloucestershire group of the National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens.
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Turner's books include the monograph ''Euphorbias'' and previously ''Better Garden Design'' and ''Capability Brown''. He contributes to a number of journals and magazines including ''Hortus'' and ''The English Garden''. His garden design for the 1983 Chelsea Flower Show won the '' Sunday Times'' contest and then won an award,"Mickleton Gardening Club"]
''Evesham Journal
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'', 29 May 2014. and he designed two gardens and pavilions at the Garden Festival in South Wales in 1992.
Bibliography
* ''Capability Brown and the Eighteenth Century English Landscape'', London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson; New York: Rizzoli, 1985. . 2nd ed. Chichester: Phillimore, 1999.
* ''Better Garden Design'', London: Dent, 1986.
* ''Euphorbias — A Gardeners' Guide'', London: Batsford, 1995. Paperback ed. 1998.
* ''Design in the Plant Collector's Garden'', Portland, Oregon: Timber Press, 2005.
References
British garden writers
British landscape and garden designers
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
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