Feb. 15 UPDATE: We regret that this evening with author Dan Pearson is now sold out and that we will not be able to admit further people at the door. We thank you for your interest; for further information, feel free to call the Garden Conservancy's San Francisco office at 415.441.4300.

This reception and lecture is presented with support from the Garden Conservancy‘s George W. Rowe Education Fund and the 2011 San Francisco Flower & Garden Show.

Dan Pearson’s work is characterized by a bold painterly use of form, texture. and color in plantings and in the creation of distinct site-specific environments informed by an intuitive response to the “sense of place.” His designs are highly aesthetic and fundamentally informed by the belief that it is better to work with nature than to try and impose a design upon it.

To read Dan Pearson’s bio, click here.

To read more about Dan's projects and design philosophy on the
Dan Pearson Studio website, click here.


Location
Special Exhibition Hall, The Walt Disney Family Museum
104 Montgomery Street, The Presidio, Main Parade Ground
San Francisco, CA

Time
Wine Reception: 5:15 p.m. | Lecture: 6:15–7:30 p.m.

Admission
SOLD OUT

Advance registration $30 | $35 at the door, space permitting

About Dan Pearson:

Seattle garden writer and friend of the Garden Conservancy Debra Prinzing writes about Dan Pearson: “Pearson is a horticultural rock star in the U.K., with boyish locks, an engaging personality and dreamy landscapes. He designed five award-winning gardens at the Chelsea Flower Show, writes a regular column for the Observer newspaper of London and appears on BBC television and radio gardening programs.”

To read Debra Prinzing’s full January 21, 2010 article about Dan Pearson in the Los Angeles Times, click here.

About Dan Pearson’s most recent books:

Home Ground: Sanctuary in the City (U.K. Conran, March 2011)
Ten years ago Dan Pearson found an extremely rare, large, neglected city plot and set out to design and create a garden space all of his own. Arranged by seasons, Dan shares the challenges of gardening his city plot in a romantic and beautifully written series of diary-like essays, documenting the horticultural tasks required and sharing his successes and failures on the way. Written and photographed in ‘real time’, this book documents an urban garden and gardener at work, bringing the experience of gardening to life and offering a unique insight of one of the world’s most respected garden designers.

Continuing to quote Debra Prinzing on Dan Pearson: “in creating landscapes, residential or public, the designer wants to understand the natural context of places—an approach outlined in his earlier book Spirit: Garden Inspiration (2009). He said Spirit is a memoir-scrapbook of his ideas about allowing the environment guide the domestic landscape. The book contains essays and photos of the plants, places and people that have influenced his designs.”