ANTHONY NOEL

LECTURES
Anthony has given lectures at The Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Wisley, Kew Gardens, The Victoria & Albert Museum in London, The Garden History Society, The English Gardening School, The Museum of Garden History, The Daily Telegraph/House & Garden Fair at Olympia, Oxford Botanical Garden, and The Royal Botanic Garden - Edinburgh. His American lecture tours have included Denver, Chicago, Madison, San Francisco, Philadelphia, The Berkshires and The Hamptons and already this year he has lectured at Phipps Conservatory, Pittsburgh;  U.S. Botanic Garden, Washington D.C.;  Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University;  Blithewold, Bristol, Rhode Island.

FEATURES
Anthony’s gardens have been featured in Harpers & Queen, House and Garden, Vogue U.K., Bises-Japan, Sunday Express, Daily Mail, The Times and The Telegraph, House Beautiful-USA, Garden Design-USA, Casa Vogue, Esquire, ‘Highlife’ (The British Airways Magazine) and The London Magazine.

TV and RADIO
In June 2007 Anthony presented a new Sunday series called, Nearer God's Heart, on BBC Radio 4. In four 15 minute programmes about important gardeners or garden writers and recorded in the relevant gardens, Anthony interviewed the individual concerned, the current owner or head gardener of the property. The programmes were: -

24 June : Charles Jencks The Garden of Cosmic Speculation
1 July : Margery Fish East Lambrook Manor
8 July : Christopher Bradley-Hole The Minimalist Garden
15 July : Vita Sackville-West Sissinghurst Castle

Other TV and radio appearances include Woman’s Hour, This Morning, and Gardeners’ World and in July 2002, Anthony appeared in a Gardener’s Question Time for Barnardo’s Charity at Lambeth Palace courtesy of The Archbishop of Canterbury, with Baroness Boothroyd, Brenda Blethyn and Pippa Greenwood.

WRITING
Anthony’s books on garden design, Terracotta and Great Little Gardens (with a foreword written by friend, actress Brenda Blethyn, OBE), are published by Frances Lincoln.  He has also contributed a chapter on Urban Shade for Making Gardens by Cassells and Roses, A Celebration, by Wayne Winterrowd, published by North Point Press (USA).  

Anthony writes regularly for The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times, The English Garden, Your Garden, Woman & Home, Country Life, BBC Gardeners’ World and has also written for Saga Magazine and The Gardener Magazine (USA).

To celebrate the millennium, he wrote an 11-page piece on his work on town gardens for the official Chelsea Flower Show magazine ‘Celebrating Chelsea 2000’ for Channel 4 TV and the Royal Horticultural Society.

The Royal Horticultural Society invited Anthony to write articles to be featured in the programme to celebrate The Gala Evening at The Hampton Court Palace Flower Show for the three years - Town Gardening (2002), How Meeting Vita Sackville-West at Sissinghurst in Childhood Changed my Life (2003), and an historical essay on Hidcote (2004) by Cassels.

TESTIMONIALS
Anthony is listed in The Garden Book by Tim Richardson, published by Phaidon; a major directory of the 500 greatest gardeners ever. In it he wrote “… Anthony Noel combines a penchant for theatricality and glamour with a sure handling of space … His original ideas have been copied many times over in recent years. Noel’s spatial confidence means he uses large scale urns, plants or trellised supports in a small space, but always with the same degree of elegance.”

Anthony has also featured in House and Garden’s list of The 50 Best Garden Designers and Plantsmen in Britain in March 2002

Anthony Noel’s garden in Fulham, London won The Good Garden’s Guide ‘Best Town Garden in Britain Award’ and The Chelsea Gardener’s Guild prize for ‘The Best Small Garden’.

“… I would rate it as one of the most charming of small gardens anywhere”. Tony Venison wrote in Country Life of Anthony’s garden in Fulham

“A garden with theatrical flair…a jewel-like garden…a masterpiece of exquisite artifice and perfectly trained plants…Mr. Noel has found his métier in garden design, bringing to it artistry and theatricality.”  Francesca Greenoak - The Times writing of the Fulham garden.

“Anthony Noel is the king of the paint pot in the garden”. He “has become well-known for transforming small urban gardens into magical mini-stage sets.”…“You never knew what to expect when visiting his garden, but you always knew it would be beautiful, because for all the dramatic colour and clever ideas, the plants would never be forgotten. ‘You have to love them enough to dress them up, but not so much as to make fools of them’ he is fond of saying.” Elspeth Thompson in “The London Magazine”

Country Life’s review of his book, ‘Great Little Gardens’, says that it “captures the new spirit emerging in town gardens today”.

 
Anthony Noel

Fulham garden

Edwardes Square

Planter

Dulwich