Hosted by the Design Museum, the gardener and broadcaster, Monty Don joins landscape architect, Tom Stuart-Smith for a public conversation encompassing garden design, the lessons learned during their careers, current passions and projects, and the role of gardening and garden design in today’s world.
Chaired by gardener and Assistant Curator of Public Practice at the Design Museum Naomi Zaragoza, the event will take place on the 13th of July, 18:30 – 20:00 at the Design Museum in London.
Over a thirty-year career, the gardener, writer and broadcaster, Monty Don O.B.E has shared his love of gardening on television, in books and magazines. He has been lead presenter of Gardeners’ World since 2003 and since 2011 the programme has been filmed in his own garden, Longmeadow, in Herefordshire. He has written a weekly gardening column for the Daily Mail since 2004, and published over 20 books, including the bestsellers The Gardening Book and Gardening at Longmeadow. Japanese Gardens, his book with Derry Moore, was shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award. Most recently, he designed the RHS and BBC Radio 2 Dog Garden at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
Celebrated as one of the UK’s top landscape designers, Tom Stuart-Smith and has created gardens, parks and landscapes throughout the world for clients including the Royal Horticultural Society, the Royal Academy of Arts, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the V&A. He runs a landscape design practice, employing eighteen landscape designers and in 2024, he established the Serge Hill Project with his wife, Sue-Stuart Smith, which is a not-for-profit engaging local school children with gardening. He is currently developing a garden that will transform the setting of Tate Britain, to be opened in 2026.
Both have redefined horticultural and garden design standards nationally and internationally through their work and share a mutual admiration for one another.
Further details and booking information can be found here.
