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Thatch Cottage- Isle of Wight
This charming 16c cottage overlooks an estuary on the Isle of Wight. The new garden frames views to the estuary reed beds through mature trees and on the upper lawns views open out to the chalk down land. Around the cottage itself is a riotous summer garden of rich colours and textures.
The Mill House
This is a lovely garden in Oxfordshire and was a rare chance to devote the design almost entirely to planting. I laid out a very simple ground plan on what was an old pasture land and then planted it up into a wild and luxurious giant meadow. The planting is very simple to maintain and has lasted very well for 6 years now. Click for published press
The Bankside Penthouse
The project objective was to create an ultra modern design for this small but fabulous riverside terrace. Given the exposure to wind and weather a rugged Core-ten steel was used for the planters, softened with timber decking.
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Marlow
The Crowne Plaza Hotel is an Hotel with a difference. I was asked to make a formal design that complemented the surrounding National Trust woodland. I chose to use extensive clipped topiary of Hornbeam and Yew and add to it a lavish herbaceous planting scheme in the Dutch manner. The result is startling and yet sympathetic to the locale. Bamber Wallis designed the site-specific water sculpture.
Stockwell Garden (Civic Trust Award)
This garden is great fun and connects the contemporary modern interior of the house with the gentle early Victorian Crescent where it is located. The garden needed to be both modern, child friendly, well planted and spacious. It achieves all this and more and has become a sought after haunt for design journalists and fashion shoots. The team won a Civic Trust Award for the work. Click for published press
Woodley Community Centre (Civic Trust Award)
The farsighted local council were inspired to recruit Hawkins Brown Architects to design a new build Community Centre with its own Theatre. I made a very simple contemporary garden in sympathy with the building and its timber clad exterior. The garden is made up of tree plantings, and mono cultural beds of bamboo and grasses. The gardens will mature to a stylish variation on the usual urban planting scheme.
Iden Croft Herb Farm
The well known Kentish Herb Farm is due a renaissance. Collaborating with the architects Eldridge Smerin for a third time, we have secured planning permission for an exceptional modern house set in a restored and modernised herb nursery.

Further Projects

A great number of projects are either underway or fully completed. Here is a further cross section of the type of jobs we enjoy. As long as a brief is stimulating it is considered irrespective of size or budget. We are especially proud to have no less than 5 Civic Trust Awards. It's great to feel that we're improving things!
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