Filmscapes

Filmscapes A landscape gardening business with a twist... Our biggest claim to fame is creating breathtaking se The Filmscapes journey had begun.

Our first commission was for Stuart Craig on Hugh Hudson’s Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes in 1984 when Ron Whittle was headhunted to create ‘living’ sets. We quickly went from strength to strength, with further Stuart Craig films – including Cry Freedom, Memphis Belle and The English Patient, as well as commissions on Kenneth Brannagh and Stephen Spielberg films. Stuart went on

to work on The Secret Garden in 1993, asking Ron to become involved once again… “It’s kind of a fact that the most difficult thing to pull off was the garden.” The aim was to resist a picture-postcard quality in favour of a heightened reality. The secret garden was constructed within an existing garden on one edge of the Pinewood complex, with Filmscapes providing plants in varying states of unruliness and wondrousness. “We wanted summer and winter all in the same 10-week period,” Stuart Craig comments, remembering the fate of a ‘slightly neurotic’ chestnut tree. “We shot the summer scenes first, then stripped the leaves off it and shot the winter scenes on this poor bare tree, which was very confused about where it was.” Subsequent to filming, he recalled, “The tree put out another batch of leaves; I was rather glad to see the thing was alive.”

30 years on, Ron is still involved, but taking rather more of a back seat these days… while the day to day running of the business is handled by his daughter Lucinda Mclean and landscape design by his son Hadrian Whittle.

01/11/2022
08/05/2020

Everything is still growing here Filmscapes
14/04/2020

Everything is still growing here Filmscapes

Good work matching USA location filmed last summer at Ealing Studios this January!
17/01/2019

Good work matching USA location filmed last summer at Ealing Studios this January!

Another great collaboration with The London Garden Designer. SUSHISAMBA Covent Garden London Before, during and after p...
13/12/2018

Another great collaboration with The London Garden Designer. SUSHISAMBA Covent Garden London Before, during and after photo's

Whilst the weather outside was blowing a hooley and bucketing down with rain I spent a lovely afternoon with a talented ...
09/12/2018

Whilst the weather outside was blowing a hooley and bucketing down with rain I spent a lovely afternoon with a talented group of lovely ladies making wreaths. Well done girls! And thanks for a fab lunch.

Recycle, Reuse, Reduce. tropical flowers re-purposed and in my home. Happy Friday 😍😍
29/11/2018

Recycle, Reuse, Reduce. tropical flowers re-purposed and in my home. Happy Friday 😍😍

28/11/2018

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15/11/2018

A beautiful autumn morning at Castle Howard

A lovely thankyou message from the Institute of Flavology team. 👏👏👊💗
04/10/2018

A lovely thankyou message from the Institute of Flavology team. 👏👏👊💗

500 kg of tomatoes in a tree or is it Christmas?
19/09/2018

500 kg of tomatoes in a tree or is it Christmas?

Just about to buy 500 Kg of
30/08/2018

Just about to buy 500 Kg of

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Ditton Nursery, Summerfield Lane
Surbiton
KT65DZ

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+442083989151

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