Indeed, a display of wild nature inspired his concept for the Jubilee celebration. That’s what I’m still doing.”Ī ‘superbloom’ of poppies and other wildflowers in southern California in 2019. I wanted to explore how you could bring that experience, that feeling, of the wild into gardens. “I started to feel that the things I was seeing in nature, a coppiced wood full of bluebells, for example, I never saw in gardens. “They bought up two whole turf farms’ worth of turf to cover the area just in case it didn’t work.”Ĭhildhood experiences in the natural world, in Suffolk and Kent, influenced his creative approach. “In March to April 2012, large parts of the Olympic Park looked much like this: just bare soil.” He tells how the park managers began questioning whether any plants would appear. “Creating landscapes from seed takes a bit of a leap of faith,” says Dunnett. And like Superbloom, these displays were sown directly from seed. I wanted to explore how you could bring that feeling of the wild into gardens Nigel Dunnettįor the London 2012 Games, his Olympic Gold Meadows at the Olympic Park in Stratford were a crowd-wowing mass of flowers that transitioned from blue and orange to sheets of gold as the seasons progressed. Having implemented bold planting schemes from London’s Barbican and Buckingham Palace to the streets of Sheffield (he is professor of planting design and urban horticulture at the city’s university), Dunnett is no stranger to high-impact horticulture. Photograph: Carlotta Cardana/the Guardian
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