Timothy Mitchell on tomatoes, transforming tennis courts and designing en plein air

Australian landscape architect and garden designer Timothy Mitchell joins Cass Dowding on The Sentimental Gardener podcast to talk about his early memories of plants, transforming tennis courts into a meadow of flowers and designing gardens en plein air.

They also dive into finding beauty in Australian native plants, building a dry climate garden that actually works, letting a garden evolve naturally over seasons, and why the most alive gardens are always being edited, observed and mulled over.

They recorded this episode in Tim and his partner Lucy's backyard, surrounded by the antiquing of plants moving from summer to autumn and a view of Mt. William/ Wil-im-ee Moor-ring as the backdrop.

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

01:35 Early memories of gardens and plants

05:00 Choosing a life in landscape design

09:00 Gardeners and landscape architects

13:45 Designing public places

16:00 Transforming a tennis court into a garden

18:30 Starting a garden from scratch

19:00 Finding beauty in Australian plants