A workshop to explore our personal responses and creative connection to the land.
Walking and pausing in the layers of the walled garden we will spend time considering the dynamics at work that have evolved this space and the forces that continue to influence how it works, feels and flows.
We will focus on the seen and unseen, the growing and constructed, the emerging and decaying, and the powerful interwoven systems that make all things possible ~ from ecological planting to choosing materials and working with energy flow.
Please bring something to write or draw on and with, and dress for movement, sitting in stillness, and the weather.
£175
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About Marian Boswall
A leading landscape architect, Marian is best known for her thoughtful and regenerative approach to land design and to life. From flood plain restoration to historic estate masterplans and soulful gardens, weaving harmony with all that is beyond the everyday; her deep respect for our ecology, history and our future informs her work, from the soil, to the gut, to the spirit.
Marian writes and speaks on regenerative design and was a lecturer in Historic Garden Conservation at Greenwich university. A Chartered Fellow of the Landscape Institute, her studio invests in the land for the very long term. Kindness is a deeply embedded ethos.
Publications include 2019 TedX talk ‘Can Gardens Save the Planet’. 2022 Sustainable Garden - shortlisted for Garden Book of the Year. 2025 The Kindest Garden. Winner of Garden book of the year.
She has won many design awards and is a House & Gardens and Country Life top 50 designer but is most interesting in the long term legacy of her work. She is co-founder of the Sustainable Landscape Foundation and Chalk to Coast - a nature recovery corridor across North Kent.
Marian has a Masters in Landscape Architecture from Greenwich, and a Masters in Modern Languages from Oxford. Renowned for her ecological planting designs which care for the more than human as well as creating deeply beautiful spaces, she is also an agroecology coach and land energy worker. Her first career was management consultancy. She loves sunrises, wild swimming and remote ski touring.