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It’s been four decades since Dan Pearson first fell in love with a seed catalogue as a small child. Now he’s achieved the highest plaudits of his discipline, we might expect his fascination to wander. So why is he still a self-described garden fanatic? Pearson answers that gardening itself has taught him how to commit.
Gardens have given him continuity, variety, joy. In return they’ve needed him to let them unfold at their own pace, to retreat in order to bloom. They’ve required him to look and notice, to understand the habitat, to be timely. He’s had to be constant, consistent, hard-working. Along the way gardening has taught him lessons, he says, about relationships in all their forms. “You set something to grow and help it flourish. You grow alongside it. And potentially both of you, and the relationship between you, carry on getting better.”
For his Sunday sermon, this most thoughtful of makers will share what gardening can teach us about living in the world.
Dan Pearson’s exhibition ‘Green Fuse’ is at theMuseum of Garden History in London until 20 October 2013. To find out more about the show, click here.
Dan Pearson is a garden and landscape designer, writer and broadcaster. He was joint author of The Essential Garden Book with Sir Terence Conran and author of The Garden: A Year At Home Farm, Spirit: Garden Inspiration and Home Ground: Sanctuary in the City. He has designed five award-winning Chelsea Flower Show gardens and was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2011. The exhibition Green Fuse: The Work of Dan Pearson runs from 23 May to 20 October 2013 at The Garden Museum, London.