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The gardens of Luciano Giubbilei
Since 1997 Luciano Giubbilei has been creating beautiful gardens in locations on three continents. This book examines gardens from Giubbilei's portfolio. Each project is fully documented, from the preparation of mood boards to final planting and finishing.
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Instead, in the garden he made for Laurent-Perrier, the Italian designer Luciano Giubbilei gave us creamy lupins and buff spires of rodgersia, pierced by brilliant flashes of green-yellow from Smyrnium perfoliatum and spurge. The counterpoint was blue, in spires of the Siberian iris 'Persimmon', baptisia and low mounds of an iceberg-blue phlox called 'Clouds of Perfume'. It was heavenly. I wanted to pick up the whole flower border and take it home. I can't ever remember feeling that before at Chelsea. Talking to him on the day before the show opened, I learnt how the shift had happened. He's spent the past year or so experimenting with plants on a spare plot in the vegetable garden at Great Dixter, where Fergus Garrett gardens with a joyous abandon that you don't find in any other garden in England. That's where he learnt about lupins, key plants in his Chelsea borders, and a long-time favourite at Dixter. Giubbilei used two different kinds - 'Chandelier', a lemony kind of yellow with subtly darker standards and 'Cashmere Cream', slightly shorter at 90cm/3ft. Cloud-pruned hedges had disappeared from Chelsea show gardens along with green walls. I like cloud pruning, but hedges treated that way take up a great deal of space and don't work in the average urban garden, which is usually much longer than it is wide. You want to accentuate the width, not eat it up with bulges of clipped box. But the best gardens all had proper hedges: native hawthorn in Hugo Bugg's gold-medal winning plot, bay in the elegant garden that the landscaping duo, Del Buono Gazerwitz, made alongside Giubbilei's. The bay was handsome, but you could see how much titivating it had needed, where browned-off leaves and shoots had been clipped away. It was a brave choice, but for the average gardener, it would be an expensive one *
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Adam Frost takes time out from awards ceremony to design a garden in Cairo
[Luciano Giubbilei]'s design uses tiered evergreen hedges and trees to create a peaceful space for LaurentPerrier's entry. \"I will be really interested to see what Luciano comes up with,\" said [Adam Frost].
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The garden architect
\"Tom [[Tom Stuart-Smith]] asked me why I don't just do one of my gardens, but I want to use this opportunity to develop something different,\" he says. \"It is a flower show, after all, so I thought, \"I have to have flowers'.\"
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Gardens need to be beautiful too, and that was what I missed at Chelsea this year. There were plenty of worthy gardens, some slick gardens, some opportunistic gardens, but too little beauty. Designer Ulf Nordfjell's garden won Best in Show but it was as cold as a Swedish winter. No heart. No soul. An icy palette of plants. The rocks he'd used lay like fallen gravestones, hard-edged, slabby pieces of granite. Trees are one of the most important features of a show garden, but Nordfjell had chosen grey willow-leaved pears (Pyrus salicifolia 'Pendula'), then savagely reshaped them f into narrow, sparse cylinders. They didn't earn their prominence. There was a good pine tree though (Pinus sylvestris 'Watereri'), used boldly in the front. But the pine had been clipped in a way that enhanced its natural form - dense, rounded, compact. The pear hadn't. Like bookends holding together the central conversation pit and its accompanying blocks of deschampsia, [Luciano Giubbilei] included two matched blocks of planting in subdued deep red, bronze and purple: feathery bronze fennel, spires of Salvia nemorosa 'Caradonna', two purplish black bearded iris ('Superstition' and 'Black Swan'), the dark-flowered astrantias 'Claret' and 'Hadspen Blood' and a particularly handsome peony called 'Buckeye Belle'. It was a nice combination, but we've seen a lot of this particular palette since Piet Oudolf and Arne Maynard first used it in the garden they made for Gardens Illustrated in May 2000.
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The Education of a Gardener
Richardson features Luciano Giubbilei, a 44-year-old Italian garden designer whose signature look was, until recently, one of sharp lines--dignified topiary forms in clipped boxwood and hornbeam with moved lawns, still pools and smooth limestone terracing. Giubbilei is now exploring a new approach to gardening, the naturalistic style known as \"prairie planting,\" at Great Dixter in East Sussex, England. His scheme is fine-tuned with an emphasis on specific peak \"moments\" throughout the seasons.
Magazine Article
Rooms With A View
Garden designer Luciano Giubbilei is profiled. His gardens feature architectural lines and custom-made furnishings.
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PROFILE: Luciano Guibbilei
Luciano Giubbilei is a fast learner. 'I have been spending a lot of time with the experts at [plant specialist] Crocus, the nursery that works with Laurent-Perrier. It's really changing the way I design,' he says. He had to do his homework - the head honchos at the champagne house said to him, 'No flowers, no go', he says in his Italian-ish English. 'Everything, from the spacing between trees to the lighting, is mathematically worked out,' he says. Sometimes clients take things too far even for Giubbilei. 'One rejected a tree because its trunk wasn't completely straight. It can be challenging,' he says. His gardens are, unsurprisingly, high maintenance - well, someone's got to keep those hedges neat - something he always makes sure clients understand before he starts work. Giubbilei was born in Tuscany in 1971, moving to London 12 years ago to study garden design at the Inchbald School of Design. He established his practice, Luciano Giubbilei, in 1997, swiftly making good contacts, crucially not just in garden design, but in interiors too. By the late 1990s he was collaborating with then-rising design stars Kelly Hoppen and Michael Reeves. 'They really helped me out,' he says. 'Gardens are simply rooms. I'm really just an interior designer, outdoors.' Perhaps Giubbilei is a new-breed - exterior designer. You read it here first.
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