Rosie Nottage Garden Design

13/10/2026

We are delighted that our garden on the River Thames is a finalist in the Society of Garden and Landscape Designers 2027 awards, please head to the link in bio to vote for River Thames House. This garden is designed to flood once a year as part of the Thames valley plan so needed to be totally flat and have very robust planting - it’s looking great and loved by the family who live in it, I hope you love it too

Expertly built by Landform and brilliantly cared for by Gareth, Noel and Sami

02/10/2026

We are very proud that one of our gardens has been shortlisted as a finalist for the SGLD awards 2027, a flood resilient garden on the River Thames. Water is increasingly one of our clients in a brief - how do we slow its movement through a space, how should we plant to withstand extremes of flood and drought, how should we conserve water and use it wisely in maintenance? We are in incredible company - what a collection of wonderful spaces!

30/09/2026

Postcards from a week freediving and sailing a pirate ship around the West coast of Scotland… so many memories to fill my memory pension. Dolphins beside us, incredible food, wonderful people, so much wildlife, music and laughter, dancing, stillness, sock wrestling round a fire, rigging climbing, jumping off a pirate plank, foraging and of course, knitting and sourdough. Thank you for an amazing week.

30/09/2026

A lovely moment with Bath Preservation Trust opening the garden at No. 1 Royal Crescent | Bath , designed by Grant Associates and built by Selby Landscapes. The garden is a great example of a reversible addition to a Grade I listed building, planters in a very Georgian teal filled with 69 species of plants, painstakingly sourced to reflect Charles Babington’s notes on the flora of Bath and promote conversation about each individual plant. Some lovely ways to increase habitat to boost biodiversity and climate resilience (water bowls, gravel mulch, multistem trees with wildlife value) and a gorgeous little space. Another reason now to visit No. 1 Royal Crescent | Bath!

10/09/2026

10/09/2026

A whistlestop stroll through my raggedy garden, come along on Saturday morning to open a moth trap and see which moths I am sharing it with

24/08/2026

As the longest and hottest summer tips into the next season, we are turning our thoughts to Autumn, new projects and new clients – it’s a good time to meet each other. After 15 years of our studio it’s the first time I have introduced myself on these pages, here’s a little more about me, my life and my approach. If you would like to get in touch to talk through your landscape and whether we might be the right people to work with, we would love to meet you.

02/08/2026

The summer holidays are off to a great start. We disappeared to a favourite beach to sleep in the van, read books, potter about, look in the kelp and paddleboard. Three days feels like two weeks, batteries recharged and ready for the rest of the summer. I’ll be in the office and with clients half the time and the rest will be by the sea, still with email and the phone, but with half an eye in the kelp.

22/07/2026

A challenging site and some wonderful feedback from our client

This was a large and layered brief; front and rear gardens to reimagine, a new garden building to integrate, and a field next door waiting to become meadow. There were multiple contractors, challenging ground conditions, and a landscape that needed to hold together as one.

“Rosie has designed a garden that gives us joy every day. Her passion for plants and landscape design knowledge shone through the whole process; from the initial consultation to design stages, construction and beyond.

Rosie quickly understood what we were trying to achieve and successfully addressed several challenges across the site. She liaised with architects, building contractors and landscape contractors to ensure that the plans could be successfully brought to life. She has continued to stay in touch to follow up on how the garden is developing.

We now have a beautiful, thriving established garden with year round interest which works in harmony with the house, garden building and the wider landscape. We cannot recommend her highly enough.”

— Jude (our client in Wales)

This is a stunning garden that earns its place in the landscape, and that was always the intention.

17/07/2026

A moment of adoration for one of our design family; Sophie is one of our team and has created a stunning garden at RHS Badminton in memory of her late Mum. ‘Where Grief Grows Quiet’ is inspired by sheepfolds and is a place of refuge for everyone experiencing grief. It’s an intimate and calm space borne of a deeply personal experience. I am constantly amazed by the skill and poise of the designers I work with and very proud to be able to work together, I can also see the hands of Ellie and Ben here in Sophie’s carefully delivered design.

Sophie rightly won four awards: Gold Medal, RHS Young Designer of the Year, People’s Choice Young Designer Garden and Best Construction Award.

Congratulations to Sophie and to everyone who created this garden, you are amazing.

Photos by the gorgeous Éva Németh