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    Noel Kingsbury is a British garden designer and writer, perhaps best known for his love of naturalistic planting and landscapes.
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    Plaz Metaxu Garden: The 'place of thresholds, gaps and surprise transitions’

    Developed over 30 years by an art historian, this thought-provoking garden is filled with Classical references, reveals Noel Kingsbury.

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      Noel Kingsbury: Why it's time to reassess 'one of the great triumphs of the 20th-century English garden'

      Everything from climate change to the whims of gardening fashion shape what we plant, but is it time to remember our traditional strengths, asks Noel Kingsbury.

      By Noel Kingsbury Published 14 November 21

    • The billowing perennials and repeating grasses achieve the balance of appearing contemporary, yet as if they have always been there, helped by the delicate Mexican daisy, Erigeron karvinskianus, which seeds within the stones . The gardens at Hopetoun House, West Lothian. ©Claire Takacs

      Hopetoun House: Wall-to-wall brilliance in an extraordinary 12-acre former kitchen garden, and an inspiration to keen amateurs everywhere

      Inside the early-18th-century walls of Hopetoun House, West Lothian, bold planting schemes and original designs are providing an exciting new use for this 12-acre former kitchen garden, discovers Noel Kingsbury.

      By Noel Kingsbury Published 11 September 21

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