OUTSIDE Collab 2022: Keynote Speaker Thomas Rainer

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Thomas Rainer is a registered landscape architect, teacher, and author living in Arlington, Virginia. Thomas, a leading voice in ecological landscape design, has designed landscapes for the U.S. Capitol grounds, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, and The New York Botanical Garden, as well as over 100 gardens from Maine to Florida. Thomas serves as a Principal for the landscape architectural firm Phyto Studio in Washington, D.C. with Claudia West and Melissa Rainer.
While passionate about design and focusing on details, Thomas is a specialist in applying innovative planting concepts to create ecologically-functional designed landscapes. His recent work focuses on the artful interpretation of wild plant communities into designed plantings that thrive in the context of towns and cities. His recently published book co-authored with Claudia West, Planting in a Post-Wild World, was released in fall 2015 from Timber Press and was selected by the American Horticultural Society as one of the 2016 books of the year.
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@brettprice527 Жыл бұрын

Thomas is the man. His book with Claudia west called "planting in a post wild world" is incredible. You can build a career on the back of it. Not enough people in that audience.

@rmariacarlson Жыл бұрын

Highly recommended! I attended a presentation of his in 2023 and came away wildly inspired-- bought the book and am already integrating the philosophy and practices into my own client projects. Well thought out and well presented. Would love to hear more.

@nicolasbertin8552 3 ай бұрын

I like this idea of even planting below large perennials with groundcovers or small plants. But what was missing in Thomas' book was a list of those groundcovers... There's a page with about 9 of them but that's it. It's not easy finding plants that will be happy in spring sun and summer / autumn shade, since bulbs don't qualify. Many geraniums will be too big. So I guess that leaves sedges/carex, but I would like some diversity. According to Piet Oudolf, sedges go well with asters, calamagrostis, campanulas, geraniums, persicarias, salvias. But they don't go well with thalictrum, veronicastrum, eupatorium, achilleas, eryngiums, deschampsias... For those plants, there's deffinitely some bare ground underneath. Artemisia ludoviciana can be used sometimes, but it requires pruning in June otherwise it flowers and gets a bit untidy.

@terrapuraregenerative Жыл бұрын

I personally love the american movement because they create always plant communities that have a functional layer.

@BhaalooWildscapes 7 ай бұрын

This was great! Reading Planting in a Post Wild World currently. Loved having additional examples of concept application.

@ericjorgensen8028 7 ай бұрын

I would love to have heard the questions too! Excellent talk and presentation. Definitely makes the case for the ground cover/matrix layers and how they become both as a feature and as a benefit to the other plants and life in the garden/area. Gotta go buy more carex!