Clare is the Garden Editor of House & Garden UK and will share fascinating details about the making of her newest book, Pastoral Gardens (Montgomery Press, 2024). A rhapsodic deep dive into gardens that blur the lines between intentional design and the wild landscape, it offers intimate glimpses of twenty gardens in the UK, the Continent, U.S. and Africa – including projects by Dan Pearson, Sarah Price and Tom Stuart-Smith. She will detail the history, design and planting behind many of these gardens in this sumptuous meditation on bucolic beauty.

 The interviews I carried out for the book were fascinating, veering off into philosophical, environmental and sometimes spiritual territory and it made me realise how intimately people are connected to their gardens. They define who these people are. The gardens become an intrinsic part of their lives, connecting them to the wider ecosystems we belong to.  — Clare Foster

Speaker’s Bio:

Clare was at Gardens Illustrated for nine years before joining House & Garden UK in 2005. She is a passionate life-long gardener – first on an allotment in London, and now at her home in the English countryside, where she cultivates a gravel garden, a kitchen garden and herbaceous borders. She is also a freelance garden journalist and the author of six books.