Guest lecturers

The London College of Garden Design plays host to special events with our partners such as Future Gardens and BBC Gardens Illustrated. Inspirational lectures are an important part of what we do and have included leading figures from the garden design world such as:

Brita von Schoenaich
Landscape architect and planting pioneer.

Professor James Hitchmough 
Renowned creator of naturalistic herbaceous vegetation for use in urban parks and greenspace.

Jinny Blom
Garden Designer and Chelsea Gold Medal winner

Luciano Giubbilei
Garden Designer of the Laurent Perrier garden at the Chelsea Flower Show in 2009.

Marcus Green
Conceptualist garden maker at Future Gardens 2009

Carol Klein
BBC Gardeners World and Gardens Illustrated

Tom Stuart Smith
Garden Designer and winner of  “Best in show” for his garden at the Chelsea Flower Show 2008.

Jane Hudson & Erik de Maeijer
Garden designers and conceptual garden makers – see them at Future Gardens 2009 with a composition called “The Nest”.

Andy Sturgeon
Award-winning garden designer and Chelsea Medal winner.

Therese Lang
Creator of the conceptualist garden festivals at Westonbirt and Future Gardens.

Henrietta Coutauld
Garden design with Tom Stuart-Smith Ltd specialising in planting design.

Gill Chamberlain
Renovation and planting expert for large country gardens.

Louise Bell
Garden designer and landscape expert based in Sussex

Tony Kirkham
Head of the Arboretum at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Peter Harper
Founder member of the Centre for Alternative Technology and leading environmental expert

Mark Diacono
Gardening and climate change expert and owner of the UK’s only climate change farm

Jo Thompson
Garden designer of the Thrive ‘Unexpected Gardener’ at the Chelsea Flower Show 2010

Tony Heywood
Leading conceptual garden designer

For more information about forthcoming events click here