An award-winning garden and landscape designer and writer will be discussing his new book explores recent developments in planting design, horticulture, ecology and plant science.

Landscape designer Darryl will be discussing his brilliant new book Gardening in a Changing World: Plants, People and the Climate Crisis explores recent developments in planting design, horticulture, ecology and plant science. It addresses our relationship with plants and gardens, looking at the ways we can begin to appreciate and work together with plants in facing the challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss.

Speakers:

DARRYL MOORE is an award-winning garden and landscape designer and writer. He is author of Gardening in a Changing World: Plants People and the Climate Crisis (Pimpernel Press). He is Director and co-founder of the innovative urban landscape organisation Cityscapes, realising creative approaches to greening city spaces through novel design ideas that ensure ecological, economic and social sustainability. He is co-curator of thehub.earth. He sits on the Society of Garden Designers Council and is a fellow of the RSA. His most recent award was for the St Mungo’s Putting Down Roots Garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022, showcasing sustainability and ecology in public places. He has worked with Team London Bridge on the design of many of the local pocket gardens in the area such as including Gibbons Rents, the new Hunt’s House (Guy’s Hospital) and Greenwood gardens (Kings College London).

Humaira Ikram is a broadcaster on BBC R4 Gardeners Question Time, journalist, designer and garden design course leader at KLC of Design.

George Hudson is the garden columnist for the Evening Standard and the Green London Curator at the Garden Museum.

Presented by Team London Bridge as part of its programme for Field Lab part of In a Field by a Bridge festival - inafieldbyabridge.com