Photos: Acclaimed British Garden Designer Enthralls Crowd

EAST HAMPTON, NY — Award-winning British garden designer Jinny Blom spoke this week to a sold-out audience at the fourth annual "Madoo in Manhattan: Robert Dash Garden Design Lecture," according to a release.

The talk, "Changing Nature: Towards a New Landscape," took place at a private club in New York and covered six projects which showed the broad scope of her projects.

Blom’s lush and contemporary gardens for private clients and public institutions run the gamut from therapeutic gardens to lavish estates in Europe, Africa, and the United States, the release noted.

Blom explained her working methodology and how she’s "pushed her creativity at each site while keeping her client’s wishes in mind. With a thorough knowledge of the evolution of British landscape design and keen plantsmanship ,Blum has continually moved the garden design canon forward. Blom alongside her highly-skilled crews, transform derelict spaces and fragile ecosystems into romantic flower-filled landscapes," the release said.

Guests at the event included Janet Mavec, Miranda Brooks, Katie Ridder, Alexia Leuschen, Deborah Nevins, John Danzer, Leslie Close, Diana Elghanayan, Dominique Browning, Len Morgan, Angus Wilkie, Frances Palmer, Stan Stokowski, Melissa Ozawa, Bernadette Murray, Melanie Roy, Kendell Cronstrom, Martha McLanahan, Lucian Simmons, Bruce Bierman, William Secord, and Judy Ross.

Hailed by Architectural Digest as "One of the most sought-after talents in her field," Blom is a self-taught garden designer who set up her design practice in 2000 and has to her credit an extensive range of commissions in the United Kingdom, Europe, Africa, Middle East and the United States.

The Madoo Conservancy is dedicated to the study, preservation and enhancement of Madoo, the ever-changing, horticulturally diverse garden with historic structures established in 1967 by artist, gardener and writer Robert Dash, in the Village of Sagaponack; at Madoo, the unique living tribute to the artistic imagination of its founder, "we seek to continually engage, educate and inspire our visitors in this entirely organic environment," the release said.

Photos by Richard Lewin Professional Photography, soniboy@aol.com.

Reporting by Richard Lewin.