Garden Designer Andy Sturgeon has a plethora of awards for his contemporary and innovative styles, has enjoyed extensive media work including presenting on TV and writing for various newspapers and has also published three books. In later years I realised the gardens had been a big inspiration to me. With hindsight I wish I had gone to Kew but I had very little knowledge about how to approach it at that time. I looked at the local authority courses but none fitted the focus I wanted — Landscape Architecture generally focused on the less exciting side of design such as car parks and motorway embankments.
I made the decision to study interior landscaping at the Welsh College of Horticulture in Mold, North Wales, mostly because of the design element — and a fair bit of what I learnt there I have since put into practice. When I left college I worked for David Stevens for a year and really cut my teeth there. This was when it all changed. Yes and to this day I maintain that Surrey is the best place in the world to be a landscape gardener, because of the concentration of wealth in the area.
I started the business and did design in the evening. The work purely came from recommendations by the clients I was working for. I did this for five years and then needed a change. From there I went to South East Asia and worked in Hong Kong as an engineer — this was where I learnt how to bank a crane which seems bizarre but has since come in quite useful!
I got calls from TV production companies and magazines every week and most of them came to nothing but the fact it was all being talked about was a step in the right direction. House prices had also started to go up so this influenced what people could spend in the garden. The BBC officially stopped doing makeovers because they took a lot of criticism for it. But they did give birth to an industry and like it or not Ground Force was a big part of that.
We focus on complicated private gardens and commercial projects. We have 4 full time designers and landscape architects. Some people see garden design and landscape architecture as two different principles, landscape architecture looks at the bigger picture whereas garden design is more about concentrating on the detail, there is an overlap and the way I see it, our practice sits in the middle both in terms of our vision, but also the level of complexity and detail that we can handle.
As a garden historian, he has extensive experience of the restoration and the reconstruction of historic gardens, but is equally at home designing London plots. What he does best Elegant, formal gardens with topiary framework inspired by the geometry of traditional 17th-century designs, and beautifully designed structures and ornaments, such as trellis, summerhouses and gates, which bring the garden to life.
Planting for double borders at Thenford Gardens, in Northamptonshire, a reflecting pool at Somerleyton Hall, in Suffolk, and terrace planting at the Hotel de la Ville in Rome. Charlotte Harris and Hugo Bugg joined forces in and are already achieving big things.
Husband-and-wife team Isabel and Julian Bannerman have been working together since They have a distinctive style epitomised by their own former gardens at Hanham Court, near Bath, and Trematon Castle , in Cornwall. They moved to Somerset last year and are now creating a new garden there. What they do best Drawing the magic out of a place, with romantic planting and theatrical garden buildings.
He has a wide portfolio of private projects, but has kept his design practice small and still works in a hands-on way. James also writes and lectures on gardens. For the past 20 years, Jane has been making gardens in and around London and further afield. With a background in fine art, she has built a reputation for dynamic planting, with an emphasis on how plants co-exist in nature.
What she does best Medium-sized, family gardens with imaginative, non-formulaic planting combinations set against a contemporary framework.
What she does best Clever all-encompassing plans for large estates, combining beautiful, formal gardens with thoughtful land management. Joe is well known as a TV presenter, but he also designs gardens under his own name and for design company Modular, which he co-founded. Celebrating 20 years in the business, Jo runs a team of eight. She has recently launched a bespoke mail-order bulb subscription service called Colour My Garden colourmygarden.
What he does best Regenerative farming combined with human settlement — smallholdings and country estates where both gardens and landscape are productive. An Italian designer based in the UK for more than 20 years, Luciano has made his name creating sleek, top-end urban gardens.
His current portfolio is more diverse, embracing larger-scale landscapes and a naturalistic planting style. What he does best Luciano is admired for creating private gardens with an understated elegance, often influenced by classical Italian design. Exploring and nurturing a sustained dialogue with architects, artists, plantsmen and craftsmen is key. Luciano is developing projects in Tuscany, Formentera and Dallas, and plans include planting a large perennial garden in Virginia.
He is also working on a design for the walled garden at Raby Castle, County Durham. Established in , this studio has an international reputation for designing public and private landscapes, and has won three RHS Chelsea gold medals. What he does best Super-stylish, contemporary design using a refined palette of materials in combination with richly textured planting schemes.
Her portfolio includes the public gardens at both Charleston, in Sussex, and Chevening House, in Kent, which are balanced by private projects around the country. What she does best Beautiful contextual planting informed by naturally occurring plant communities. Designing and building distinctive modern gardens under the name of Rosebank Landscaping, Matthew has both public and private clients in the UK and abroad.
He was also managing director of Clifton Nurseries before leaving to set up his own design business in Projects range from creating master plans for National Trust and English Heritage landscapes to designing private gardens nationwide. They create mainly private gardens in the UK, but also abroad, particularly the Mediterranean.
What they do best Beautifully crafted gardens with impeccable landscaping designed by Emma, as well as intricate planting by Libby. Led by Gavin McWilliam in collaboration with Andrew Wilson, the team at McWilliam Studio is highly experienced and creates slick, contemporary private gardens, mainly in the south east.
As well as being the professor of planting design and urban horticulture at the University of Sheffield, Nigel has designed a number of innovative planting schemes for public landscapes — including Trentham Gardens, in Stoke-on-Trent, and the Barbican, EC2. He also works on private gardens. Previously in business with Mary Keen, Pip now works solo, with projects both private and public round the UK.
He is also developing his own garden in Hampshire with partner Kim Wilkie. What he does best The large-scale landscapes of historic houses, where he can peel back the layers and provide highly tuned planting schemes that are sensitive to each location. Running his busy landscape practice from offices in Cambridge and Worcestershire, Robert works on some 30 projects at a time — juggling private gardens with high-profile public work. Personal life Sturgeon lives in Brighton, and has three sons with his partner Sarah Didinal, who died suddenly in summer , aged Publications Andy Sturgeon ISBN Andy Sturgeon Conran Octopus.
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