Home Ground: Sanctuary in the City

INTRODUCTION The Beginning; History & Archive Images; Oasis; THE PLAN Assessing the Site; Constraints; Privacy / Boundaries; The Borrowed View; Orientation / Light; Design Concepts; Materials; Incarnations; Plans; WINTER Beauty in the Wreckage - What To Leave & What To Save; Seedpods / Winter Skeletons; Informality / Formality; Bare Root; Change / Time / Trial & Error; Experimentation Vs Continuity; Potting Shed; Ordering Seeds; Black & Brown; Soil; Microclimate; Trees; Evergreen; Shrubs; Winter Flower & Scent; Pruning; Preparation; The Cut Back / Clear Up; Mulch; SPRING; Right Plant, Right Place; Groundcover; Bulbs; Sowing Seeds; Yellow; Texture / Foliage; Climbers; Sowing vegetables / Organic; Frame / Cloches / Fleece; Annuals; Waves of Interest; Green; Ferns; SUMMER Continuity / The Cut Back; Herbs & Vegetables; The Pots; Control / Staking; Woodlanders; Pink; Combinations / Posies; Balance & Equilibrium; Weeding / Opportunists; Silver; Ecosystem; How the Garden is Used; Transparency; Red; Watering; Cuttings; Movement; Scent; Harvest; Grasses; Blue; AUTUMN; Saving Seeds; Compost / Green Manure; Planting Bulbs; Editing; Lighting; Autumn Colour; Perennials; Dividing / Planting & Propagation; Preparing For Winter; PROLOGUE; Garden Essentials; Tools & Equipment; Seed Suppliers; Nurseries; Furniture

Dan Pearson is a landscape and garden designer with an international reputation for design and planting excellence. The understanding of how plants relate to their surroundings and natural growing conditions together with an appreciation of landscapes and landforms, are the primary inspiration for his work. Dan trained at the RHS Gardens' Wisley and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and began his career as a professional designer in 1987. His own design company, Dan Pearson Studio, handles a wide range of projects comprising private gardens, public spaces, architectural landscaping, public parks and civic plantings. Dan is a weekly gardening columnist for The Observer, and has also been a columnist for The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Times. He sits on the Editorial Board of Gardens Illustrated magazine, was joint author of The Essential Garden Book (Conran Octopus) with Terence Conran and author of The Garden: A Year At Home Farm (Ebury Press). He has presented and appeared in TV series on BBC2, Channel 4 and Channel 5 and appears regularly on radio. Dan lectures widely in the UK and Europe as well as Chile, Argentina, South Africa, America, Australia and New Zealand. He has designed five award-winning Chelsea Flower Show gardens. Dan was appointed a Tree Ambassador by The Tree Council in 2006.