Dan Pearson OBE (born 9 April 1964) is an English landscape designer, specialising in naturalistic perennial planting.
[5] Pearson also undertook student scholarships studying wildflower communities in the Picos de Europa, Spain, and in the Himalayas.
[8][9] In 2010 Pearson and Huw Morgan restored a late 18th-century house (a 1,500-square-foot two-story buff-coloured stone building with small windows and two chimneys on a red-tiled roof,[7]) with 20 acres of land outside Bath as their home and workplace,[10] called Hillside.
[7][11] In a broadcast interview with Kirsty Young on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, Pearson stated that he has known Morgan since the 1990s.
[12] He has designed gardens for Jonathan Ive, Paul Smith,[1] venture capitalist Walter Kortschak, art dealer Ivor Braka, real estate businessman Vladislav Doronin,[13] Torrecchia Vecchia for Carlo Caracciolo (the late owner of the Italian newspaper l'Espresso),[14] and his colleague on The Guardian newspaper, Nigel Slater (this garden was a joint effort with Monty Don).
[6] Another large project was the Tokachi Millennium Forest Garden, in Shimizu, Hokkaido, which was featured on the BBC Radio 4 programme Designed in Britain, Built in Japan.
In 2011, he was elected an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and was a member of the jury for the 2011 RIBA Stirling Prize.
[25] Pearson was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to horticulture.
[13] He presented Dan Pearson: Routes around the World on Channel 4, a six-part travel and horticultural series by Flashback Productions, in 1997.