Uploaded August 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
From Fine Gardening Magazine:
It’s amazing that Jeff Epping has time to garden for himself at all. In 2009 he founded Epping Design and Consulting with a mission to help others create beautiful, ecologically beneficial landscapes. He recently retired after almost three decades as director of horticulture at Olbrich Botanical Gardens in Madison, Wisconsin, where environmentally conscious gardening has always been central. In his “spare” time, you’ll find Jeff leading garden tours around the globe, often sharing his favorite private gardens with select groups of avid gardeners. How does he do it all? An active lifestyle that includes biking, kayaking, and trekking through mountainous regions of Costa Rica and other countries certainly helps!
In this talk, Jeff talks about his use of woody plants (trees and shrubs) to effectively frame 'rooms' and consume space in larger gardens to reduce maintenance and enhance perennials. Jeff's walk and talk occurred at Northwind Perennial Farm earlier this summer.
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From Fine Gardening Magazine:
It’s amazing that Jeff Epping has time to garden for himself at all. In 2009 he founded Epping Design and Consulting with a mission to help others create beautiful, ecologically beneficial landscapes. He recently retired after almost three decades as director of horticulture at Olbrich Botanical Gardens in Madison, Wisconsin, where environmentally conscious gardening has always been central. In his “spare” time, you’ll find Jeff leading garden tours around the globe, often sharing his favorite private gardens with select groups of avid gardeners. How does he do it all? An active lifestyle that includes biking, kayaking, and trekking through mountainous regions of Costa Rica and other countries certainly helps!
In this talk, Jeff talks about his use of woody plants (trees and shrubs) to effectively frame 'rooms' and consume space in larger gardens to reduce maintenance and enhance perennials. Jeff's walk and talk occurred at Northwind Perennial Farm earlier this summer.
Like, subscribe, and share! Leave comments and questions and Roy will do his best to reply! Closed Caption is now available! Activate with the CC button on the bottom right of the video window.
👉 Recommended reading 🤓
📗 Permaculture One: A Perennial Agriculture for Human Settlements amzn.to/3YJVQze
📗 Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community amzn.to/3OO5Brw
📗 Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability amzn.to/3OJSasD
📗 Piet Oudolf At Work amzn.to/3TL1Ntd
📗 Wild flowers and how to grow them by Edwin Francis Steffek amzn.to/42GAc0k
📗 Field Guide to Wisconsin Sedges: An Introduction to the Genus Carex
amzn.to/3FBA5cD
📗 Gardening with Grasses, Michael King & Pite Oudolf amzn.to/3TtQ5Dd
📗 The Gardener's Essential by Gertrude Jekyll amzn.to/3XbHBAV
📗 The Well-Tempered Garden by C. Lloyd amzn.to/3Yp30aQ
📗 Flora of the Chicago Region amzn.to/3kZcOKf
📗 The World-Ending Fire by Wendell Berry amzn.to/3IuiB0J
📗 Gardening With Perennials Month By Month amzn.to/3k9NCy1
📗 Tokachi Millennium Forest: Pioneering a New Way of Gardening With Nature amzn.to/3lcbsba
📗 In Praise Of Shadows amzn.to/3ljBvgq
📘 The Hidden Half Of Nature amzn.to/3dkmYzn
📕 Perennial Garden Plants by Graham Stuart Thomas: amzn.to/37mGvM7
📗 Planting Designs by Piet Oudolf and Noel Kingsbury: amzn.to/3oTYKOF
📘 Planting The Natural Garden by Piet Oudolf and Henk Gerritsen: amzn.to/2IRvglg
📙 Seedheads In The Garden by Noel Kingsbury: amzn.to/37ji6H7
📙 Know Maintenance by Roy Diblik: amzn.to/3oWt9fy
📕 A Small Porch by Wendell Berry: amzn.to/3gPLO9T
📘 Jewels of the Plains by Claude A. Barr: amzn.to/3J0yFsM
📕 The Art of Planting or the Planter's Handbook by Graham Stuart Thomas: amzn.to/3B9l3t8
📘 Hardy Perennials by Alan Bloom: amzn.to/3aRh6hY
(Some of these links may be 'affiliate' links. You'll pay the same price but I may make a small commission if you purchase through these links. This will help support my channel and keep the content coming! Thank you!!)
🎥 Produced by Geneva Lake Creative genevalakecreative.com
✍ For a design consultation contact Roy at roydiblik@gmail.com
📕 Buy Roy's book here: amzn.to/3oWt9fy
👉 Buy the Spear Head Spade here: amzn.to/3b7ygWt
#roydiblik #northwindperennialfarm
