A Beautiful Obsession
Jimi Blake has spent the last 25 years collecting stand-out plants which he grows in dynamic and innovative ways at the fabulous Hunting Brook Gardens. Exotics with extraordinary shaped leaves set off fine collections of salvias and dahlias in this bold, experimental garden. Hunting Brook is always on the move and even regular visitors find fresh surprises around every corner. Yet from the open borders to the woodland and valley there is a grounded quality to the garden that reflects Jimi’s close ties with the land and respect for the spirit of the place.
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“The story of one man’s love affair with plants, this is a personal account of bold plant selection and creative gardening in a world that never stands still.”
— Benjamin William Pope, Gardens Illustrated
“Blake is what could be described as gardening royalty.”
— Fionnuala Fallon, The Irish Times
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Jimi Blake.
Jimi Blake trained at the National Botanic Gardens of Ireland and was appointed head gardener at Airfield estate in Dublin at twenty-one — eleven years in which he was given the room to find his own planting style, before securing twenty acres of the family land in the foothills of the Wicklow Mountains and beginning, in 2002, the garden that has occupied him since.
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Noel Kingsbury has spent three decades arguing — in books, lectures and design work — for an ecological approach to planting design. He has written some twenty-five books on plants, gardens and landscape, four of them with the Dutch designer Piet Oudolf, whom he first met in Holland in 1994, and has done as much as anyone in English to give the new perennial movement a working vocabulary.
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