How Five Seasons Came to Be

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Epic Gardening

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🗓️ 2 June 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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We’re back with Tom Piper, and today we talk a bit about how Five Seasons came to be. It stemmed from Tom’s work on the New York High Line, which Piet was a designer for. And, like all gardens do, it grew from there.

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0:00.0	What is up everyone?
0:03.0	Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast.
0:05.0	We are joined again by Tom Piper.
0:08.0	He's an award-winning director of the film Five Seasons, which profiles Pete O'Dolf, who is a world-renowned Dutch garden designer and author and also a nursery man in an earlier period of his life.
0:21.0	And so today what we're going to talk about is kind of Tom, I'd love to know how did this film come
0:26.6	about and it seems like you and I kind of have similar backgrounds in that I came to gardening as
0:32.2	a non-gardener and now it's what I do and and you came to this film it seems in a very similar light right?
0:40.0	Yes, I mean it's as I did in the last episode, but I always sort of confess, you know, I wasn't a gardener.
0:48.0	I'm much more knowledgeable about gardening, but yeah, it was, I mean, I've made films I've been making documentaries for about a dozen years now and
0:59.1	Was lucky enough to sort of get into it through making films about visual artists and then that kind of expanded into including design. I mean it's artists and sort of wide net so it was writers and musicians and then it became a lot of
1:14.4	architects and designers and one of the projects was making a film about the design architects of the High Line which is a firm called
1:25.1	Diller Scophidio on Renfro and as you know people probably know that Pete
1:31.6	Aldoff is probably his most high profile project is the high line in New York City
1:37.3	which if people haven't seen it it's it's really it's an incredible public space and a very unusual one I mean
1:46.2	there's really really only kind of one other precedent there's a similar kind of elevated park in Paris, but what they did with the High Line in New York,
1:58.2	it's an old abandoned railroad track that was in the process of being torn down and then to guys who live in a neighborhood
2:06.8	decided they would try to save it and thought maybe you could have another life
2:11.4	as a kind of public space and really I think one of the big
2:16.8	successes of the High Line is the I mean lots of interesting things are going
2:21.4	on there not least of which is that it's 30 feet
2:24.4	above the city so you have this incredible perspective on New York that you don't
2:28.2	get except if you're on tops of buildings and you know that kind of situation.
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