Approach
Gardens created with a sensitive understanding of place and a deep respect for nature.
My ethos and approach to gardens has two main strands: appropriateness and sustainability.
Appropriateness in Design
Listening carefully to the client’s requirements and preferences.
Responding sensitively to the architecture, history, geology and ecology of the site.
Handmade sweet chestnut gate using lap joints, dovetails, oak pegs and copper nails by coppice worker Olly Moses.
Sustainable garden & landscape design
Using local materials and working with existing plants and materials as much as possible in my designs.
Supporting wildlife through successional and layered planting – providing a long season of suitable plants for pollinators.
Supporting wildlife by creating meadows, ponds, hedges (live and dead), log piles and other habitat rich environments.
Using traditional and sustainable craftsmanship to bring the best out of natural materials; collaborating with artists and craftspeople in order to achieve this.
Urban & Rural Garden Design
I work on a range of garden and landscape design projects from planting designs for small urban gardens to landscape designs for large country estates.
Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have a project you’d like to discuss.
“Thank you for all the planting and design ideas. I love the fact that you have used a sketched impression. Really helpful. Sketching is just not used enough in our digital world.”