Nigel Rollings
Landscape Design

5-43 47th Avenue • Hunters Point, NYC, NY 11101-5421 • 718.784.7458
nigelrollings@gmail.com

I’ve been designing and installing gardens in the New York, Tri-State area for 21 years and for 13 “winter seasons” have been teaching Urban Garden Design at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

In 2006 I received the Association of Professional Landscape Designers’ Silver Award for a residential garden located in Flatbush, Brooklyn, NYC.

Numerous commissions include private gardens in New York City, Westchester, and Hyde Park, NY. Public gardens include a Senior Citizen Center in Queens (1993), a Manhattan co-op roof garden (1996), and a “Safe Start” Women’s Shelter playground in Brooklyn (2001).

My gardens sometimes demonstrate a symbolic interpretation of the natural world and often utilize synthetic materials, blending the traditional with the contemporary. Plants are chosen for their suitability to the site conditions, ease of maintenance, and their practical as well as sensory value.

Born somewhere between the herbaceous border and the potting shed, Hereford, England, I studied alongside Will Allsop, Rob Lett, and Rem Koolhaas at the Architectural Assocation School of Architecture in London (1968–1970), then completed a B.A. in Design at Goldsmiths School of Art (1970–1973). A permanent resident, I’ve tried to live a creative life that processes and reflects my response to nature, events, modern music, and my dreams in New York City since 1974.

> for more garden photos, see my Flickr page
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