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Cultivating Place: High Style, Dry Gardens With Designer Daniel Nolan

Photos courtesy of Daniel Nolan Design, photos by Caitlin Atkinson, all rights reserved.
Photos courtesy of Daniel Nolan Design, photos by Caitlin Atkinson, all rights reserved.

As we near the close of a dry, dry season in the generally dry climates of much of the US west, this week Cultivating Place has the first of a two-episode focus on the inspiring beauty of dry gardens and the plants and people who love them.

We start off with some high style in dry gardens with garden designer Daniel Nolan, owner of Daniel Nolan Design and author of Dry Gardens, High Style for Low Water Gardens, published in 2018 by Rizzoli Press, and photographed by Caitlin Atkinson.

Photos courtesy of Daniel Nolan Design, photos by Caitlin Atkinson, all rights reserved.
Photos courtesy of Daniel Nolan Design, photos by Caitlin Atkinson, all rights reserved.

In the opening to his book, Daniel notes that “some of the most successful gardens are not about human’s control over nature, but about how human’s respond respectfully to their surroundings.”

Daniel’s work, which is consistently focused on strong design using as little water as possible, covers regions as wide ranging as Florida, South Carolina, Louisiana, Texas, Arizona, California and the West Coast generally.

Photos courtesy of Daniel Nolan Design, photos by Caitlin Atkinson, all rights reserved.
Photos courtesy of Daniel Nolan Design, photos by Caitlin Atkinson, all rights reserved.

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Jennifer Jewell is the creator and host of the national award-winning, weekly public radio program and podcast, Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History & the Human Impulse to Garden, Jennifer Jewell is a gardener, garden writer, and gardening educator and advocate. Particularly interested in the intersections between gardens, the native plant environments around them, and human culture, she is the daughter of garden and floral designing mother and a wildlife biologist father.
Matt Fidler is a producer and sound designer with over 15 years’ experience producing nationally distributed public radio programs. He has worked for shows such as Freakonomics Radio, Selected Shorts, Studio 360, The New Yorker Radio Hour and The Takeaway. In 2017, Matt launched the language podcast Very Bad Words, hitting the #28 spot in the iTunes podcast charts.