Tom Stuart-Smith: Finding a language - one garden designer’s journey

Schedule

Mon Sep 15 2025 at 01:00 pm to 02:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Sissinghurst Castle - National Trust | Cranbrook, EN

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The Sissinghurst Series presents respected landscape and garden designer Tom Stuart-Smith.
Monday 15 September | 2pm - 3pm
£25
Join us for an afternoon with Tom Stuart-Smith, one of the most respected voices in contemporary landscape design.
With a career spanning public and private commissions across the world, from the Royal Horticultural Society’s flagship gardens to intimate domestic landscapes, Tom’s work reflects a unique balance between naturalism and structure.
His gardens are as much about ideas as they are about plants, shaped by an ongoing dialogue with art, architecture, and ecology.
This is a rare opportunity to hear directly from a designer whose work continues to redefine what gardens can be.
This event is part of The Sissinghurst Series for 2025, a series of horticultural experts speaking on topical issues in the gardening world today.
About the speaker:
Tom Stuart-Smith is known for his deeply thoughtful and layered approach, Tom brings together horticultural knowledge, spatial awareness, and a subtle understanding of place to create gardens that are both emotionally resonant and richly textured.
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Sissinghurst Castle - National Trust, Sissinghurst Garden, Cranbrook, TN17 2AB, United Kingdom

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