The Leaside Garden Society has announced that its speaker on Thursday, May 13 will be Tony Spencer, Canadian writer, photographer, speaker and planting designer. His subject will be Designing With Grasses. Mr. Spencer is particularly known for his blog, The New Perennialist. The influential blog focuses on Explorations in Naturalistic Planting Design. His work is recognized internationally with Gold and Silver Awards from GardenComm (formerly Garden Writers of America). As planting designer, Mr. Spencer won the 2020 Landscape Design Honor Award from the Perennial Plant Association in the US.
Puckish ringleader
He has become a puckish ringleader for the naturalistic movement in social media channels like Facebook group ‘Dutch Dreams’ and Instagram. Writer by profession, planting designer by passion, Tony is a self-taught gardener and biophiliac who made a deep study of the visionary work of Piet Oudolf, and later came to know and study with the Master himself at Hummelo. He has traveled extensively to gardens and symposiums internationally to keep up with the cutting edge of planting design, all while experimenting on a new series of wild-ish gardens at his beloved cabin in the rolling hills of Mono, Ontario. To attend the May meeting visit www.leasidegardensociety.org or email leaside@gardenontario.org
