AHS LIVE: The Modern Professional Planting Designer
with Andrew Fisher Tomlin, author and director of environmental design, London College of Garden Design
Friday, May 8, 2026 from 2-3 p.m. ET
Virtual
$15 AHS members/$20 non-members
There are many different approaches we can take to filling our gardens, landscapes and lives with plants. In this talk based on his new book, The Modern Professional Planting Designer, Andrew Fisher Tomlin will reveal some of the tools that will help you achieve professional-level solutions in planting. He will explore the difference between ornamental, naturalistic and nature-based planting design and discuss a guiding framework to support the development of your own planting design choices. With examples of real-life projects in Europe and the USA, he will finish with a preview of the 2026 RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
Andrew Fisher Tomlin is widely acknowledged as leading the development of a distinct professional career path in planting design through his own work and as a director of the internationally renowned London College of Garden Design in London and Melbourne where he has mentored some of the most exciting new designers coming out of the UK and Australia over the past 20 years. Andrew is a Chartered Horticulturist and a Fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Horticulture and the Society of Garden and Landscape Designers in the UK and has received design awards in the UK, USA, Australia and New Zealand. He also teaches students of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and has given papers at institutions worldwide such as the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. and at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.