This episode was originally broadcast in December 2009.
Alexander Reford is a historian and the director of the Reford Gardens of Metis in Quebec and the co-founder of the International Garden Festival of Metis, a festival that has featured designers such as Claude Cormier, NIP Landscape, Paula Meijerink (TG 10) and Chris Reed of Stoss Landscape Urbanism (TG 15).
Alexander is on the board of directors for the Canadian Tourism Commission as well as the president of the Quebec Gardens' Association and Tourism Gaspésie. He has written a number of books and numerous articles in the fields of Garden Design, Canadian history and tourism. In this dispatch, Alexander talks to us about the 10th edition of the Metis Garden Festival, its future, the origin of Reford Gardens, the effects of tourism on the landscape, and blue sticks.
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Dispatch 28: Stefan Rotzler
Dispatch 27: Claude Cormier
Dispatch 26: Marc Treib
Dispatch 24: Maria Goula
Dispatch 23: Gabriele Kiefer
Dispatch 21: Ken Smith
Dispatch 20: René Bihan
Dispatch 19: John Beardsley
Dispatch 18: Michael van Gessel
Dispatch 17: Liat Margolis
Dispatch 16: Gary Hilderbrand
Dispatch 15: Chris Reed
Dispatch 14: Kristine Jensen
Dispatch 13: Richard T.T. Forman
Dispatch 12: Reuben Rainey
Dispatch 11: Robert Royston
Dispatch 10: Paula Meijerink
Dispatch 9: Elizabeth Meyer
Dispatch 8: Niall Kirkwood
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