I’m a London-based landscape designer specialising in contemporary gardens and natural, resilient planting schemes. I also teach garden design and planting design at Capel Manor College in Regent’s Park.

My designs are sympathetic to their setting, and my planting style has always been informed by practicality and sustainability in the widest sense. This means embracing, from the start, the ‘right plant, right place’ principle, but also embedding low maintenance and minimal ongoing care.  I also try to reuse as much of the existing material as possible, or to procure material from responsible providers – and locally wherever possible. This results in beautiful gardens that not only implement specific requirements in relation to style and practicality, but also have their own character and feel integrated in their wider environment.

I am a member of the Landscape Institute, the professional body for landscape architects.

More about me

I’ve been involved in gardens for the better part of the past 30 years but my early career was in publishing and journalism, working as a law reporter and magazine editor. Ten years ago, I retrained as a garden designer at Capel Manor College, in Regent’s Park, where I qualified with a garden design diploma. Halfway through, I started my own garden design business and I also joined the gardening team at Queen Mary’s Gardens, also in Regent’s Park, as a volunteer gardener. I have designed two gardens there, including the entrance garden to the café.

A few years on, and I went back to college and started an MA in Landscape Architecture at The Bartlett, the school of architecture at University College London, which has been ranked No.1 for architecture and built environment studies globally for the past four years.

Whether you are just looking for input and new ideas from a professionally qualified garden designer, for a new planting scheme, or for a complete redesign, I can probably help. Just drop me a line.

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