About Me

I've been designing gardens since 2008, but I've been passionate about plants and gardens for as long as I can remember. A distinction in horticulture from the RHS was followed by a distinction in design from the English Gardening School were I learnt that landscape design can be as satisfying as Maths. Although there isn't just one answer it is a jigsaw puzzle of construction materials, level changes, micro-climate, mood, flow etc. and you know when everything clicks into place. It's ultimately so rewarding to tie it all together and create something beautiful.

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Nature and concern for the environment are other passions of mine, and for a number of years I've been experimenting in my own garden with ways to make the gardens I plant the best I can for wildlife. Then in 2019 I had an epiphany; I started to record the insects that came to my garden and realised that you don't just get 'bees' you get carder bees, yellow-face bees, mason bees, mining bees, leafcutter bees and so on. I became aware of a whole new layer of enjoyment in addition to colour and fragrance and realised that not only do I have a responsibility to try to support our amazing native wildlife but I would never want to be in a garden without the hum of insect life. A list of the species recorded can be found here.