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This page is about my landscape, garden and floristry design business. This page showcases my professional work as a Landscape, Garden and Floristry Designer.

It's an opportunity to see what interests and inspires me as well as get sneak previews into projects in their infancy. Although I'm based in East London in the UK, I work all over the country and abroad with private and public clients. I offer a tailor made approach to delivering beautiful designs in an informal naturalistic and contemporary style. Whether it's contract floristry design for hotel

s, restaurants and bars, flowers for events, private garden design or public landscape design schemes, I consider and interpret the context and desires of individual clients to come up with creative and inventive designs. I also collaborate on one-off flower and garden focussed projects with artists, photographers and stylists.

08/10/2024

I’ve been reading Gardens Illustrated for more years than I care to remember and remain constantly inspired by the landscapes, gardens, plants and horticultural writing featured within its pages. It is such wonderful news therefore, to reveal that I have been included this year in their list of 20 horticultural heroes, described as ‘a list of extraordinary garden champions who are making a difference to places, people, plants and the planet.’

Making gardens has always been about trying to make a positive difference. Most of the time the output is very quiet and sits below the radar - only occasionally does it really swell peoples attention. Thank you Gardens Illustrated for celebrating it all, the gentle ripples as much as the big waves.

To read more about the my work and the work of the other 19 incredible champions honoured in the list head to www.gardensillustrated.com/hortiheroes

21/03/2023

This is the wedding bouquet that I made for my beautiful friend two weekends ago. Resting in water until the last moment before it would be gathered up with ribbons and anticipation. I used to do flowers every week for my husband’s restaurant and at one point was doing as much floristry as I was landscape and garden design. As time has gone by though, the floral design has receded into the background, and the landscape design has pushed to the front. I know now that landscape design is what I really love, and I prefer growing flowers for cutting or gathering them wild than buying them, but doing this did remind me of the simple pleasure that comes from arranging flowers. Thanks for accompanying me to Covent Garden Market and for inspiring me. I’m still smiling from all the joy of that day. ❤️

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04/06/2022

Roses… If I were to allow myself a favourite type of flower, then they would be it - so it is always great to meet a fellow enthusiast in a client and really go to town. That was the case with the garden in Fournier Street. It is not a formal rose garden and there are many other flowers that bloom throughout the year. Peonies romp through the garden in early May for instance and Dahlias light it up in September and October. But during the late spring and summer months it is roses that hold court. Mainly (to be expected) , some are climbers, some are shrubs, in shades of pink, dark purple and off-white, they are pretty much all fragrant. I love them all and for different reasons but the one I’m particularly fond of in this garden is Rosa Smarty, a procumbent variety with sprays of delicate pink wild rose-like fruity scented flowers that we planted in the centre of the 14th century font, with the idea that the flowers would tumble out as if like water overflowing. The placement of an ecclesiastical font in the centre of the garden always amused me, with the spire of Christchurch Spitalfields visible over the wall to the west of the garden there is always a guessing game at play, did it make it’s way down the road all by itself?!
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02/06/2022

Welcome to the garden of Fournier Street in Spitalfields. A garden I have treasured every minute of designing and watching grow. I still do. It is the source of a series of short films that were magically created by my talented friend and sister over the course of a year, with the aim of capturing the spirit of what it feels like to be in the garden. It has an emotive quality that I hope to achieve in all the gardens I make, and is a blueprint for all my design work, whether the aesthetic is similar or not. It is therefore perfectly appropriate that it should be the first garden of mine to be featured in (July issue), a magazine that sent me on a journey to become a garden designer all those years ago. Thank you Jodie Jones for the very beautiful words, for the stunning photography, for commissioning the piece, to all the folk that have helped make the garden become what it is now, but most of all, Ben Adler and Pat Llewellyn for taking a chance on me over the many others they could have worked with.

28/05/2022

Lovely feature on our fisherman’s cottage in Deal. No pics of the garden, so you’ll have to wait for the slow reveal here or on - or use your imagination - think lush tree ferns, phormiums and other New Zealand natives (including a Cordyline - the name of our cottage), chosen in homage to my late father (a kiwi) and to the great botanists, Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander who I like to think may have passed by our place in the 18th century on their way back from the Southern Hemisphere.

26/05/2022

Colour blocking with plants and buildings. A beautiful composition by - I love the way the rusty tones of the plants are talking to the corten steel of the architecture. Our work is all about making connections, sometimes purely aesthetic, but always between people and places. Architecture: Plants:

24/05/2022

Hampstead Heath garden, this time photographed in the height of summer by the wonderful .. I haven’t yet presented pictures of the project on my website but I’m thinking that maybe it is time to. This a favourite view, depicting a favourite plant of mine, Fennel. I love it for it’s statuesque, but simultaneously diaphanous and fragile quality. It also ticks my box, because every part of the plant is edible, from the fronds, to the pollen to the seeds and you can even use the dried stalks to flavour soups. The only thing is you can’t have a problem with yellow, which a surprising number of people do!

22/05/2022

Aquilegia Ruby Port. A favourite of mine. Looking gangly and cute in our wild planting scheme for one of the gardens we have made in Downshire Hill, Hampstead. The lovely Kate Jacobs wrote about it a few years back for Gardens Illustrated. If you want to find out more about more then the article is available to read on our website in the press section. Happy Sunday. Photo: me Garden Build: Architect:

21/05/2022

Chanced upon one of my favourite late spring bulb planting combinations of alliums and nectaroscordums (honey garlic.. food fact, you can eat the bulbs but then you don’t have the lovely flowers, tricky choice). It was Barnes roadside planting in case you are wondering where. Down there yesterday to sell my car - going all electric finally.

20/05/2022

One of my favourite arrangements of planters - combining handmade delights by .gardenware and with vintage and contemporary finds - and that fatsia is just loving it. The terrace is now open for dining and there is a new chef whose menu looks divine. So happy to see the garden giving the bakery and restaurant inspiration with it’s collection of unusual edible herbs, fruits, plants and flowers.

15/05/2022

The rear view of an entirely different garden on Downshire Hill. Our first real experiment in balancing the tightrope between wild and cultivated, between a garden made and a garden left to it’s own devices. We learnt a lot and keep learning. Architect: Photo:

14/05/2022

A sea of late spring - one of my favourite front gardens, designed for a house on Downshire Hill in Hampstead, where we have made a number of gardens. Photographed in the sweet spot which doesn’t always happen when the tulips (Tulipa Spring Green and Queen of the Night) are hanging around long enough to say hi to the first rose blooms. It is where I first planted Rosa Desdemona - a plant I return to again and again. I first smelt Desdemona in a vase on the stand at and it knocked me sideways, it still does. The most intoxicating scent.

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