Archive for October, 2011
The Edible Garden
Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
The Edible Garden’s Autumn/Winter 2011 issue featured our home allotment pest control cover.
Red’s Hot Women Awards 2011 Shortlist
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
We were thrilled to learn that Isabelle has been nominated in Red magazine’s Hot Women Awards 2011 in the start-up award category. Past award winners in the different categories have included the Green Party MP Caroline Lucas, food entrepeneur and founder of Ella’s Kitchen Allison Lindley and social campaigner Katie Piper. This year’s shortlist is an illustrious group of inspiring women from all walks of life, so Isabelle is in good company! The judging panel includes Karren Brady, Sarah Brown and Anya Hindmarch and the results are set to be announced in the January edition of Red. Let’s keep our finger crossed!
Observer magazine
Monday, October 17th, 2011
This Sunday’s Observer magazine featured our Seed Paper Tea Biscuits.
Country Homes & Interiors
Saturday, October 15th, 2011
Country Homes & Interior’s November issue featured our Korbo wire planter, mini glass cloches, vintage Belgian glass jar, and Victorian cast iron cloche.
Serpentine Gallery Garden Marathon
Friday, October 14th, 2011
This weekend (15th and 16th October) a marathon of gardening talks will be taking place at the Serpentine gallery in London.The subject matter covers all things garden related: from the history of garden design, poetry, exploration of their spacial, urban and architectural importance, conservation, bio-diversity, museums, Kew’s Seed Bank to talks on walled and kitchen gardens. They have an organised an fantastic line-up of speakers featuring documentary-maker Adam Curtis, artist Wolfgang Tillmans, gardener Dan Pearson, legendary French feminist writer and philosopher Hélène Cixous, artist Jake Chapman, filmmaker Sophie Fiennes, design critic Alice Rawsthorn and plenty more.
The Balcony Gardener is particularly excited to listen to the garden designer Stefan Boeri, the remarkable architect behind the 27 storey high Vertical Forest in Milan, an incredible feat of architecture and concept and another highlight for us will be Elizabeth Diller from New York’s High Line Park who will be speaking on agritecture.
The Serpentine organises its annual talk marathon each year, and this year the gardening inspiration springs from Piet Oudolf’s secret garden at the centre of the Peter Zumthor designed pavillion. Each summer the Serpentine commissions an architect to design a pavilion in the park next to the gallery; what’s particularly interesting this year is the focus on the garden. The pavilion was created for the garden rather than the other way round, the shape of the building represents “Hortus Conclucus” meaning “enclosed space.” In his work Piet Oudolf creates places of green urban refuge, he explains: “I imagined something to dream in, something loose and wild. I look for silhouettes and textures, plants that look interesting before they are in flower. I want visitors to see that architecture is simple and planting is complex. Looking into plants brings you into another kind of thinking, connected with inner space. That’s what a hortus conclusus is for. It’s simple, in a complex way.”
The Serpentine Gallery Garden Marathon runs for the entire weekend with talks on both Saturday and Sunday.