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about our conference

One of the most anticipated events of the community of landscape architects in Hungary, the HALA Professional Days, opens its gates 2021 online to those interested. As in the previous years, also this year we would like to make our professional conference memorable and worth attending with renowned foreign speakers. With our this time one-day online programme, which will be held for the fourth time, we will continue the topic, that was a great success last years. This year further renowned masters of naturalistic planting design will hold exciting lectures about biodiverse plant use: Piet Oudolf, Nigel Dunnett, Sarah Price and Fergus Garrett. Down below you can find out more about the invited speakers, the outlines of the lectures and the possibilities to attend, and we hope to meet again in person next year, where, similar to the programme of 2020, we plan to continue our series with hands-on workshops.
Virtual Conference
A Zoom link will provide access to the event. Should somebody register for the conference, we send an email which includes this link.
Interactivity
During the presentations, participants can ask questions to the speakers. Questions should be written down and directed to the moderator who, in turn, will forward them to the presenter. With regard to foreign lecturers, the MTSZ provides Hungarian simultaneous interpreters for the listeners.
Training
The Hungarian Chamber of Architects provides participants with credit points, please indicate your need for credits on the registration interface. Certificates will be sent to the email address provided at registration.

meet our speakers

The imagining and making of a a garden
Piet Oudolf
Piet Oudolf was born in 1944 in Haarlem, Netherlands. Since 1982, he has lived and worked in Hummelo in The Netherlands, where he started a nursery with his wife Anja, to grow perennials. His garden has since become renowned for Oudolf’s radical approach and ideas about planting design. Oudolf also co-founded Future Plants, a company specialising in selecting, growing, breeding and protecting plants for landscaping and public areas. In his 35-year career, Oudolf has achieved international acclaim, and has recently been awarded an Honorary Fellowship from RIBA for developing radical ideas in Planting Design and the Prince Bernhard Cultural Foundation Award. In October 2013, he was appointed Visiting Professor of Planting Design at the Department of Landscape at the University of Sheffield.
Plants first
Sarah Price
Sarah Price has rapidly established herself as one of the most prominent and sought-after garden designers in Britain. Drawing on a prior training in fine art and a life-long love of wild and natural environments, her gardens have an immersive quality and are often described as ‘painterly’. Her practice is unusual for its breadth and scope of work. Sarah co-designed the 2012 Gardens at London’s Olympic Park and was a planting consultant for LDA Design on the post-Games legacy design. Price continues to work on a number of large public planting schemes as well as private projects. Price’s designs have collected numerous awards, most notably Gold Medals at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2018 for her M&G Investments Garden and in 2012 for The Telegraph Garden.
Artful Ecology and Transformational Urban Greening
Nigel Dunnett
Nigel Dunnett is Professor of Planting Design and Urban Horticulture in the Department of Landscape at the University of Sheffield and is one of the world’s leading voices on innovative approaches to landscape planting and urban green/blue infrastructure. He is a pioneer of the new ecological and sustainable approaches to gardens, landscapes, and public spaces. His work revolves around the integration of ecology and horticulture to achieve low-input but high-impact landscapes that are dynamic, diverse, and tuned to nature. Nigel was the first winner of the Landscape Institute Award for Planting Design, Public Horticulture and Strategic Ecology in 2018 and won the Landscape Institute Fellows Award for Most Outstanding Project 2018.
Designing with Plants the Great Dixter Way
Fergus Garrett
Fergus Garrett is CEO and Head Gardener of the Great Dixter Charitable Trust. Appointed as head gardener of Great Dixter by renowned gardener and gardening writer Christopher Lloyd, Fergus continues to keep the garden constantly changing throughout the seasons by experimenting with new plants and plant combinations. He is a hands on gardener. He has been widely recognized and awarded including in 2019 The Victoria Medal of Honour. He joined Great Dixter in 1993 and has been Head Gardener ever since.
Piet Oudolf
Sarah Price
Nigel Dunnett
Fergus Garrett

The Schedule

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

26.03.2021

Piet Oudolf

26.03.2021
9:00 am - 10:30 am
The imagining and making of a garden

Piet Oudolf, one of the most renowned garden designers of our time, will introduce us into the basics and the methodology of „Block Planting” and „Matrix Planting”, both developed by Piet. The lecture reviews the method suggested by Oudolf for the preparation of beds, the putting out and planting of plants. Finally, the speaker will suggest appropriate perennials for different purposes.

Sarah Price

26.03.2021
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Plants first

Sarah believes in plant-driven design. She is developing a visual vocabulary using plants; their shapes, textures, colours and patterns to compose her designs. She will discuss her own sources of design inspiration; providing insights into how we can look more closely at plants and the environments in which they grow. Through giving real examples, she will lift the lid on her working processes.

Nigel Dunnett

26.03.2021
13:00 pm - 14:30 pm
Artful Ecology and Transformational Urban Greening

A new approach is needed that focuses on visual appeal and aesthetics; ease of implementation, establishment and maintenance; and that has proven and demonstrated ecological function. Nigel discusses the principles behind his work and looks at some examples of his work in ecological and naturalistic planting design.

Fergus Garrett

26.03.2021
14:30 pm - 16:00 pm
Designing with Plants the Great Dixter Way

Fergus will talk about how they use plants at Great Dixter to paint and compose pictures. Fergus will touch on sense of place, shape, texture, contrast, repetition and colour. He will show many colourful pictures of the gardens at Great Dixter as well as some of other gardens.

Pricing

EVENT PRICE LIST

Morning ticket

22€

Piet Oudolf lecture

Sarah Price lecture

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Daily ticket

33€

Piet Oudolf lecture

Sarah Price lecture

Nigel Dunnett lecture

Fergus Garrett lecture

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Afternoon ticket

22€

Nigel Dunnett lecture

Fergus Garrett lecture

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