Tokachi Millennium Forest
Tokachi Millennium Forest is a game-changer for gardeners and for all who wish to reconnect with the land and wildlife that surround them. It embodies a new strand of naturalistic gardening that unites traditional Japanese nature worship with contemporary ecological planting design. This remarkable place speaks to gardeners and nature lovers the world over.
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“Dan is one of the most thoughtful garden designers I know and one of the few who understands the future of our gardens.”
— Piet Oudolf
“A masterclass in naturalistic planting.”
— Annie Gatti, Gardens Illustrated
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Dan Pearson.
Dan Pearson OBE grew up in an Arts and Crafts house on the Hampshire–Sussex border with two artist parents. At seventeen he abandoned A-levels for a trainee place at RHS Garden Wisley, then a year at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in the rock and woodland gardens, then the three-year diploma at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Dan Pearson Studio has practised as a landscape and garden design office in London since 1987.
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Midori Shintani trained in horticulture and landscape architecture at Minami Kyushu University in Japan, then moved to Sweden in 2002 to work as a gardener at Millesgården and Rosendals Trädgård in Stockholm. She returned home in 2004 to a garden design company and a perennial nursery, and since 2008 has been head gardener of the Tokachi Millennium Forest in Hokkaido — a thousand-year conservation landscape on the wooded foothills of the central Hidaka mountains.
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