Talk: Making a Splash with Anthony Archer-Wills

About this event

Making a splash. An inspirational talk by Anthony Archer-Wills—a water gardener and creator of ponds, waterfalls and rock formations. This will be accompanied by beautiful images of water and rock features together with aquatic plant associations. Anthony Archer-Wills is among the world’s foremost authorities on Water Gardening responsible for developing many of the techniques now frequently used in the construction of ponds and waterfalls. His passion was with water and being brought up with sailing craft and the magic of springs, pools and lakes he launched his own Pond and Waterfall construction business in the mid 1960’s together with an Aquatic plant nursery. Anthony went on to lecture at Kew gardens, New York Botanic Garden, Chelsea Physic Garden, The Royal Horticultural Society and universities and training facilities both in Europe and the USA. Besides taking part in several radio and television programs including Animal Planet’s ‘The Pool Master’, Anthony has written ‘The Water Gardener’ which is still considered the definitive work and used in many colleges, also, ‘Water Power’ and ‘Designing Water Gardens’ together with numerous magazine articles. Anthony has designed numerous Lakes, Swimming Ponds, Streams, Waterfalls and Grottos and Bio filtration systems together with adjacent landscaping, boardwalks and other related features. His work has been extensive in Europe, Asia, North and South America, the Caribbean Islands and the West Indies.