Planting Design

Andrew Wilson originally trained and practiced as a landscape architect before turning to a career in garden design, spurred on by his role as Director of Garden Design Studies at the Inchbald School of Design, London. He has since been Chairman of the Society of Garden Designers, Vice Principal of the Inchbald School, written several books and won awards for his garden designs in practice with landscape architect Graham Pockett, as Pockett Wilson Garden & Landscape Design. He currently teaches, writes and designs on a freelance basis in the UK and overseas and has recently launched a new company, The Tutor Group, which concentrates on continuing professional development for garden designers and landscape architects. Peter Thurman trained as a horticulturist at Kew and as an arboriculturist before moving into the commercial nursery business and into garden design and teaching. He lectured regularly at the Inchbald School of Design on plants and planting design and still teaches at Merrist Wood, Surrey and Plumpton College, Sussex. Peter has written several books and now works as a freelance garden designer and arboricultural surveyor and advisor.