Wildscaping: Explorations in Naturalistic Planting Design
Wildscaping is about using plant-driven landscape design to create and sustain dynamic garden spaces, filled with beauty and wildlife to rekindle our relationship to the natural world. Join writer and planting designer Tony Spencer for an encounter with some of the international designers, innovations, issues, and landscapes leading the way – along with a look at his own experimental design projects – to inspire garden-making with a sense of purpose on the wild side.
Tony Spencer
Tony Spencer is the Canadian writer, digital creator and planting designer known as "The New Perennialist". He is recognized and published internationally in the world of naturalistic garden design. Known for his award-winning blog, he also hosts The New Perennialist Talks, a webinar series featuring influential design innovators in the genre.
In 2020, he won a top Landscape Design Honor Award from the US-based Perennial Plant Association (PPA) and in 2023, he was named PPA Garden Media Promoter of the year. Day-to-day, Tony is a puckish ringleader for the naturalistic movement on social media with over 75,000 followers on his various channels. He travels extensively to gardens and symposiums in his primary role as a communicator, documenter and sharer of ideas for this movement.