Selected work

Every garden tells you what it wants to be.

A selection of recent work across the Chilterns, London and the Home Counties. Three are written up as full case studies; the rest are gardens we simply couldn't leave out.

Apple trees heavy with fruit in the restored Victorian orchard at Orchard House
Case study · Great Missenden

Orchard House

A forgotten Victorian orchard brought back as the heart of a family garden.

Rose-clad brick wall and gravel path leading through the gate of the restored walled garden
Case study · Henley-on-Thames

The Walled Garden

An eighteenth-century kitchen garden, rebuilt brick by brick.

Wild carrot, knapweed and scabious flowering in the chalk meadow at Wendover
Case study · Wendover

Chalk Downs Meadow

Four acres of amenity lawn returned to chalk downland flora.

Brick-paved courtyard garden glowing with lantern light at dusk
Courtyard · Marlow

Linden Courtyard

A shaded town garden rebuilt around a single lime tree and a still, black reflecting pool. A garden that lives largest after dark.

Mulched path winding through dappled woodland-edge planting at Beech Hanger
Woodland · Penn

Beech Hanger

A garden dissolved into the beech wood behind it: mown paths, ferns, foxgloves and forty tonnes of locally felled timber reused on site.

Brick steps climbing between lavender-topped terrace walls at The Steps, Berkhamsted
Terraces · Berkhamsted

The Steps

A steep, unusable back slope re-cut into three generous terraces for dining, meadow and orchard, linked by a single oak stair.

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