I am passionate about plants and spatial design, and I take great care in making sure each of my designs gives clients exactly what they want, whether its a contemporary urban chill out garden for a busy professional or a safe, cost effective child friendly space for a new Mum.
I have a BSc 2:1 Botany degree from Manchester, though it wasn’t until later in life that my working life involved plants as I spent 10 years in the media industry running a construction, retail and media trade conference business.
I trained during 2009 at KLC school of design in Hampton Court learning about exciting plants to use in gardens, materials and how to specify them, construction techniques that ensure a well built and long lasting garden and contract administration on large build projects. While I was there I won a competition (against 40 fully qualified designers) to create a planting area at Chelsea Flower Show; designing, sourcing and planting a small bed for Design Nation.
While I was training I worked as a garden labourer in Chelsea gardens maintaining the chicest of chic spaces and learning loads about the logistics of maintenance which need to be considered in the design (where do the ladder legs go? Will the lawnmower fit on the path?), and worked in Hardy’s cottage garden plants nursery where I saw the love that goes into growing plants for your garden - and met some of the best horticulturalists in the world.
I graduated with honours from KLC and was awarded the Professionalism award, and with Matthew Childs was awarded the Best Design for a Hampton Court accessible sensory garden; a project currently seeking funding to be constructed in 2012.
Since graduating I have taken lots of gardens from design to build around London, Wiltshire and Surrey and have a very exciting portfolio of projects on the drawing board - I’ve also had a baby, and love creating child friendly spaces that work for parents as well as kids.
9 months pregnant surveying a garden!
Getting the bed ready at Chelsea Flower show
Not a bad place to study
