About Me

Image by Britt Willoughby Dyer

One of my earliest memories is of picking radishes I had sown in an old greenhouse in our garden. Since then my love of gardening has grown into a passion for flowers that feeds my soul. I love to cut flowers for the house, and for friends, as much as enjoying them in the garden.

After giving up the ‘safe’ job to train as a garden designer, I cut my horticultural teeth at the fabulous Special Plants nursery run by Derry Watkins. Following this I completed an MA in Garden History at the University of Bristol with Professor Tim Mowl. The historical, architectural and garden knowledge gained from this course has informed, shaped and enriched my work ever since.

As all gardens are a work in progress so my learning and development continues and is enhanced by the people I meet through my research, tours, talks and design work.

"Water is the eye of a landscape."
Anonymous
"The best way to get real enjoyment out of the garden is to put on a wide straw hat, hold a little trowel in one hand and a cool drink in the other."
Charles Barr
"Within this dell’s green anodyne – Where drowsy falls the thrush’s song – Where flowery cups spill opiate wine – There dwells a slug four inches long."
H.J. Massingham
"The traveller returning from Italy, with his eyes and imagination full of the ineffable Italian garden-magic, knows that he has been under its spell and that it is more potent, more enduring, more intoxicating to every sense than the most elaborate effects of modern horticulture."
Edith Wharton
"A Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
Greek Proverb
"Gardening and architecture owe as much to the nobility and to men of fortune as to the professors."
Horace Walpole
"Find Joy in the sky, the trees, the flowers. There are flowers everywhere for those who want to see them."
Henri Matisse
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