The gardening world is like that popular culture phenomenon, Six Levels of Kevin Bacon. You recognize the one, the place you’ll be able to hyperlink any actor to Kevin Bacon in six steps or much less. Take any two gardeners worldwide and you’ll in all probability discover some solution to hyperlink them. This situation performs out for me on a regular basis. My gardening neighbor is lively in her native extension workplace, the place a soil scientist from a neighborhood college is a advisor, and that professor gave a webinar on sustainable gardening, the place an internationally identified native plant botanist was additionally a panelist. That was solely 4 levels from that well-known botanist again to me. I deliver this up as a result of Six Levels of Gardening is how I got here to be co-hosting an unbelievable backyard tour in England this upcoming Might.
It began when a former High quality Gardening editor wrote a characteristic article on a Midwestern backyard designed by Adam Woodruff in 2015. The great thing about that backyard caught with me for a number of years, and in 2020 I reached out to Adam and requested if he had any current initiatives he needed to share with FG. Seems he did. Actually, he had moved to the East Coast (only a quick drive from High quality Gardening headquarters), the place he had put in a beautiful seaside matrix backyard that was lastly mature sufficient for me to go to. The duvet story on that beautiful area stays one in every of my favorites from the previous 18 years. Whereas I used to be visiting, Adam steered I get in contact with well-known UK backyard designer and pal, Annie Guilfoyle—insisting that there was some kind of collaboration available. Ultimately, Annie and I bought on the telephone and chatted about all issues gardening and the thought of teaming up for in-person and on-line occasions. We cast a partnership with Backyard Masterclass (run by Annie and Noel Kingsbury) and created a web-based garden-design course collectively. That led to a stay occasion this previous summer time, hosted by Chanticleer and FG, the place Annie was a keynote speaker. And it was at dinner that evening that we formulated a back-of-the-napkin concept for a particular gardening tour in Might of 2025.
Within the months which have adopted, Annie has put an unbelievable quantity of effort and time into curating probably the most distinctive and fulfilling backyard tour you’ll be able to think about. It has been almost 4 years since that first dialog a couple of tour, and I’m very excited to share the expertise with you, our loyal FG readers. I additionally really feel so fortunate that Six Levels of Gardening exists—an enormous thank-you is owed to Adam Woodruff for the introduction to Annie Guilfoyle.
I hope to see you in England in just a few months, the place you’ll undoubtedly make your personal Kevin Bacon connections to backyard lovers from an array of areas and backgrounds. Though, I don’t suppose that the star of Footloose himself can be becoming a member of us.
Danielle Sherry, Govt Editor
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