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In garden design, I bring together the lifelong love of gardens that I inherited from my parents and an innate design sense that has been developed and refined through my working life as a fashion buyer and later an interior designer. My combined experience of fashion, spacial design and horticultural knowledge allows me to create practical, successful garden designs with subtle textural planting. 

After completing my degree in interior design, I designed retail and residential projects. Whilst working on private projects, I became increasingly interested in the relationship between interior and exterior spaces and how gardens could become an integral part of the way the owners experienced their home. To pursue my interest I completed a RHS course and set up my own practice in 2012.

 

I have a deep awareness of how gardens and landscapes can make us feel and my interest in the natural world plays an important role in the way I work. My designs respond to the context of each site and contribute to the unique sense of place I am trying to achieve within each garden, allowing the client to feel immersed and deeply rooted in the experience of being in their own garden. I am constantly curious about how to create an atmosphere within a garden space.  I have an intuitive understanding of the way gardens make us feel and I believe that a beautiful, well-designed garden can have a hugely positive impact on our well bieng. I have a profound love for my work and take a tremendous amount of time and care with each and every project.

I have considerable experience of working as part of the specialist planting teams on several of the large show gardens at the RHS Chelsea Flower Shows.

 

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Stunning naturalised #lythrumsalicaria r
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ABOUT ME

 

.'As important as these principles is the idea of the garden as a place that quietly articulates emotions and ideas. The designer's role is to set the scene without imposing a story. A garden should not bind its inhabitants to a narrow vision. Rather we want to make it a place of imaginative possibility.'  

Tom Stuart-Smith

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