Designers' Gardens
Fantastic designer gardens to inspire you (links below)! Find new plants & add to your 'Plants I want' list.
Barn Conversion Garden by London Garden Designer Cassandra Crouch
Gardens Designed with Children in Mind
By London based garden design and landscape company Olivebay. The owners of this large garden wanted an informal garden to attract wildlife and seating areas to sit and enjoy the sun and the view of the brook.
By London garden designer Julie Zeldin. The large area of lawn in this garden is an important football pitch for the young boys in the family and their friends!
By London garden designer Charlotte Rowe. This large family garden required a large lawn, but also certain contemporary elements and to comply with severe restrictions on development.
By London garden designer Ana Sanchez-Martin. This Highgate family has two very young boys, ages three and five, who despite having a sizeable garden wouldn't play in it.
By Tallinn based garden designer Merilen Mentaal. In a quiet residential setting, backed by a hilly forest area, this modern newly-built family house asked for a combination of contemporary feeling mixed with lush planting, also considering the needs of playfulness of 3 quite young children in the family.
By London garden designer Andrew Fisher Tomlin. There is real challenge in creating a garden to work alongside a contemporary renovation and a desire for a traditional family garden. By combining the clients' needs and reflecting the simplicity of the renovation project along contemporary straight lines we have achieved a great garden within a small space. Our clients are now inspired to do the gardening and their children are loving the space.
Gardens Designed in the City
By London garden designer Claudia de Yong. A large Victorian House on the edge of London had an overgrown garden and a very uninteresting terraced patio which the owners were not using properly or happy with.
By garden designer Emma Plunket. The young couple who purchased this Kensington house sought Emma Plunket’s technical advice and creativity to transform the developer’s uninspiring garden.
By Chris Maton of Olivebay. This small contemporary garden was designed to beautifully compliment the ultra modern interiors of this Victorian terrace in Highgate, north London.
By London garden designer Declan Buckley. This plant-rich urban courtyard in a coastal town was designed for a passionate gardener and a cook.
By London garden designer Declan Buckley. On view year-round through floor to ceiling glazed walls, it is important that this garden keeps its good looks even in the depths of winter.
By London garden designer Declan Buckley. This contemporary family garden is softened by generous planting, giving it a green structure, splashes of colour and wafting scent throughout the seasons
By London garden designer Declan Buckley. Simplicity was the key to the design of this tiny urban back garden.
By London garden designer Declan Buckley. The idea of stepping over a channel of water into an earthly paradise has persisted since the earliest gardens were created in the Middle East centuries ago.
By London garden designer Josh Ward Garden Design. This typical London garden had low snaking walls, an awkward slope, limited light, a mirrored back wall and a very large protected Robinia pseudoacacia.
By London garden designer Charlotte Rowe. This large garden needed a complete overhaul. A French style 'parterre' was designed for the front garden. (A parterre is a formal garden construction on a level surface consisting of planting beds, edged in stone or tightly clipped hedging, and gravel paths arranged to form a pleasing, usually symmetrical pattern.)
By Henley On Thames garden designer Jo Alderson Phillips. This courtyard garden was designed for a newly single man who wanted a space in which to party!
By Henley On Thames garden designer Jo Alderson Phillips. This is our own garden here in Henley on Thames.
By London garden designer Ana Sanchez-Martin. The owner of this garden is a busy young London banker who wanted a really stylish outdoor space suitable for entertaining friends.
By London garden designer Charlotte Rowe. This large mature garden West London garden was in need of a complete overhaul so that it would fit better with the new owners' lifestyle and tastes.
By London garden designer Charlotte Rowe. The focal point of this central London garden is a stepping stone water feature which exploits the split levels of the site and creates a calm contemporary space.
By Garden Designers Modular Garden. The garden is a contemporary, low maintenance informal garden for outdoor entertainment and relaxation.
By Garden Designers Modular Garden. The garden is a contemporary, medium-maintenance informal garden for outdoor entertainment and relaxation.
By Garden Designers Julia Fogg and Anny Evason. The clients engaged us to provide a contemporary but also functional deck for their Victorian house as well as additional planting and paving in the garden.
By Garden Designers Julia Fogg and Anny Evason. The clients for this small urban garden in Bethnal Green East London were keen to combine contemporary materials with the traditional brick walls.
By Garden Designer Spike Jackson. This tiny back garden belongs to a modern town house, which was enclosed by an intimidating closeboard fence all around.
By Garden Designer Sara Jane Rothwell. In this garden a steeply sloping bank and dense copse proved to be a challenge in transforming the space.
By Garden Designers KURITA-MAY designscape. The garden was designed for a hard-working couple to create 'Chill-Out' and socialising spaces in order to take advantage of their valuable spare time at home.
By Garden Designer Sarah Layton. This small family garden in Muswell Hill, has a huge drop between house and garden.
By Garden Designer Sarah Layton. Here we look at two patio gardens in the city with no lawn, but lots of lush planting and room for outside dining.
By Garden Designer Ruth Marshall. This Japanese client wanted a lush, relaxing, and contemporary garden to complement the new interior of the house.
By Garden Designer Ruth Marshall. This unusual city garden - featured in a five part TV series "Garden Transformers" - used bog planting with cool tones of green and white.
Gardens Designed in the Country
By London garden designer Claudia de Yong. Claudia was asked by this client to design and plant a newly converted farm courtyard area which had already had the hard landscaping put down.
By London garden designer Cassandra Crouch. This large garden in Hertfordshire sits to the rear of a modern barn conversion owned by a young family.
By Surrey garden designer Linda Regel. Neglected areas of a garden around an Arts and Crafts style house in Surrey were redesigned to create interlinking garden rooms.
By Henley on Thames Garden Designer Jo Alderson Phillips.
Designed by West and South of England designer Amanda Patton MSGD. This garden, set in a valley just outside Bath, was made up of four distinct areas, bearing no relationship to each other, and all at different levels.
By Hampshire based garden designer Jennifer Gayler. A beautiful blend of traditional and contemporary, including such features as a walled garden with potager, a croquet lawn with topiary, a wild flower meadow, a modern water garden, woodland area and a driveway lined with rhododendrons and woodland groundcover. A garden to explore!
By Bedford based garden designer Graham A. Pavey. This is a delightful country garden which is opened to visitors each year.
By Henley On Thames garden designer Jo Alderson Phillips. This is a barn conversion in a Berkshire village.
By Norwich garden designer Jamie Miles. The garden was created to provide a space to relax for guests staying in this former Methodist Chapel now serving as luxury four star holiday accommodation.
By Cheshire garden designer Robert S. Frier. A windswept, poorly drained site is transformed into a formal sunken garden on a grand scale.
By Cambridge garden designer Paul Dracott. A Georgian house is set in large rural plot; the design was to integrate the new stone Orangery extension.
By Cambridge garden designer Spike Jackson. The propeperty is a Grade 1 listed Manor House on the western edge of London, with the oldest part (a four-bay Yeoman's Hall) dating back to the mid 14th century. Despite its many fascinating qualities, the house was essentially inward looking, and the clients wanted a pair of linked “outdoor rooms” for them to use to lounge in the sun or dine in the shade.
By Nottinghamshire garden gesigner Alice Bowe. A Traditional English country garden design in Nottingham complements this large Edwardian townhouse with its terraced 'garden rooms' and sustainable and eco-friendly design.
By Henley on Thames Garden Designer Jo Alderson Phillips. This garden was inspired by the wonderful Hidcote - not too far from the clients' home.
By Sussex and London based garden designers Julia Fogg and Anny Evason. Building work had ravaged this country cottage garden. We were asked to rejuvenate the soft landscaping and use plants that would form an informal tapestry of texture and colour.
By Sussex and London based garden designers Juila Fogg and Anny Evason. The challenge was to stretch a short wedge shaped garden, creating an illusion of greater width and depth.
By Sussex and London based garden designers Julia Fogg and Anny Evason. Mature fruit trees formed the focus for the gravel garden in this rural setting.
By Sussex and London based garden designers Julia Fogg and Anny Evason. Within this windy setting we were able to create a sunken ellipse offering a sunny and sheltered seating area with views to the rural landscape beyond.
By London garden designer Sara Jane Rothwell. This Somerset garden is both contemporary and natural.
By Brighton garden designer Nick Dexter. The client approached Dexter Garden Design in order to improve the appearance of the garden for a forthcoming wedding.
By Sussex and London based Julia Fogg and Anny Evason. Planting can be used to create layers of interest within a garden.
By Blockley garden designer Alison Heitmann. This barn conversion courtyard looks out onto an open field with a pond and a very old tree.
By Nottinghamshire garden gesigner Alice Bowe. This gently mounded prairie garden was designed as a colourful yet informal compliment to the sweeping gravel drive that which approaches this Oxfordshire Manor.
Gardens Designed in Courtyards
By Henley on Thames Garden Designer Jo Alderson Phillips. This is Jo's own garden in Henley on Thames.
By Suffolk based garden desginer Sue Townsend. The crisp contemporary lines of sawn sandstone, clipped box cubes and hedging, yew and pleached hornbeam form the structure to this contemporary courtyard garden, whilst perennials and grasses introduce a softer feel bringing texture, movement and light.
By Suffolk based garden designer Sue Townsend. A clever design creates two gardens within one courtyard.
By London garden designer Catherine Heatherington. This small garden behind a large double fronted house in South London was designed to make the most of a small space.
By Garden Designer Paul Dracott. The client requested a contemporary courtyard garden to blend with his open plan interior and to be used as integral space for his many parties.
By Henley on Thames Garden Designer Jo Alderson Phillips. This small courtyard garden was designed to have the feel of a smart yacht.
By London garden designer Charlotte Rowe. This elegant courtyard wraps around a new kitchen extension and complements the interior colour scheme using many of the same colours outside.
By London garden designer Charlotte Rowe. This little South facing garden in West London had tons of potential to be an elegant and pretty entertainment space.
By Garden Designers Julia Fogg and Anny Evason. This suntrap provided an opportunity to indulge in exoticism!
By Garden Designers Jullia Fogg and Anny Evason. This small courtyard suffered from the typical problems of many city gardens - lack of space and lack of light.
By Garden Designer Adam S. Bailey. Garden and house in perfect harmony.
By Garden Designer Adam S. Bailey. Designed in combination with an interior designer, this Italian-inspired courtyard features mosaic pools, contemporary lighting and cool colours to contrast with the warm colours of the high boundary wall.
By Garden Designer Adam S. Bailey. A shady courtyard garden within the sound of Big Ben, where form and texture take priority over colour.
Gardens Designed on Roof Terraces
By London based garden designer Adolfo Harrison. This roof garden used cedar as a lightweight and enduring material to create dappled shade and shelter from the strong winds.
By London based garden design and landscape company Olivebay. A 9m x 15m unused roof terrace in Chelsea was completely redesigned.
By London garden designer Charlotte Rowe. The owner of this Knightsbridge property had a really good space of around 70 square metres outside her drawing room which although at ground level and with access to a community garden, was constructed on top of her kitchen and her neighbour's apartment. Therefore, to all intents and purposes it is a roof terrace.
By London garden designer Charlotte Rowe. This unusual house in Holland Park has a good sized roof for which there was permission for use as a roof terrace.
By London garden designer Andrew Fisher Tomlin. The developers of Bermondsey Square, a historic London square, wanted to encourage the owners of the 8 penthouse apartments to have great roof gardens.
By Garden Designer Sue Amos. An abundance of bold and natural planting softens the hard edges of this windswept roof terrace.
By Garden Designer Ruth Marshall. This garden in the heart of London's once industrial zone, is truly spectacular from all angles particularly when lit at night.
Gardens Designed with Water or Pools
By Hertfordshire based garden designer John Nash Associates. This large family house located in a leafy suburban road had recently undergone extension and alteration, part of which was to provide a swimming pool within an enclosure.
By London garden designer Claudia de Yong. A once neglected and overgrown garden redesigned for a celebrity in the Cotswolds.
By Norwich garden designer Jamie Miles. This garden by the river started life as a small expanse of
concrete paving.
By Cambridge garden designer Paul Dracott. The clients admired the calm of Japanese and Moorish gardens and requested a garden design that flowed seamlessly from a minimalist-style interior.
By Nottinghamshire garden gesigner Alice Bowe. This contemporary garden design in Nottinghamshire was built to complement the bold architecture of a modern double-storey glass extension.
By London garden designer Charlotte Rowe. This long narrow town garden in central London is paved in pale buff limestone inset with two cedar decked pontoons bridging the 10 metre long water rill which runs down the length of the garden.
Gardens Designed for Wildlife
By London garden designer Claudia de Yong. A completely neglected garden in Surrey was transformed with new paths, a large proportion of the garden was re-levelled and a wildlife pond was created.
By Garden Designer Sarah Layton. My client, Debbie Hougie, approached me to design a garden for her that would be ecologically friendly as well as fantastically stimulating and fun for her children, Alex and Jacob (aged 5 and 2 1/2).
Gardens Designed along Side Passages
By London garden designer Claudia de Yong. The owners of this Sussex cottage wanted a new path the back where there was a horrid area of nothing.
By (now retired) Garden Designer Valerie Thorning. This narrow strip of land is the rear garden of a timber-framed period property situated with one side adjacent to the main street.
By Buckinghamshire based garden designer Ruth Marshall. This garden in central Holloway is a truly tiny space, and needed to utilise that staple of London terraces - the narrow side return.
Gardens Designed with Level Changes
By Aralia Garden Design. To be in keeping with the traditional Victorian style of the property, the solution was based around a flowing design which helped to create a journey through the garden and it's different spaces.
By garden designer Andrea Newill MSGD. The site is more than 50m long and only 5.5m wide, with a steep slope upwards away from the house. This daunting shape mean’t that the garden was impractical and under used with just a small terrace squashed close to the house.
By Norwich garden designer Jamie Miles. Railway sleepers have been used to great effect in this terraced garden.
Gardens Designed by the Seaside or Coast
By Tallinn based garden designer Merilen Mentaal. This is a top floor outdoor terrace right on the beach in Tallinn, Estonia.
By Tallinn based garden designer Merilen Mentaal. This is an artist's garden who adores roses, especially the English roses.
By Brighton garden designer Nick Dexter. The garden is located close to Brighton seafront and experiences coastal winds and salt spray.
Gardens Designed with Lighting Features
By London garden designer Charlotte Rowe. The owners of this tiny little courtyard in West London wanted to make their outside space work harder for them as an extension to the house and they also wanted a 'WOW' factor.
Gardens Designed in the Woods or for Woodland
By Garden Designers Julia Foggand Anny Evason. This steeply sloping site provided an opportunity for planting in tiers along the paths and around the shady terraces.
By Garden Designer Adam S. Bailey. Contemporary seating areas add a fun splash of colour in the middle of a shady woodland in this family garden where children can explore nature and chill out with friends
Gardens Designed as Public Spaces
By John Woods Nurseries. The Family Friendly Garden at Capel Manor has evolved from the Upwardly Mobile Garden, a gold medal winning garden at the Royal Horticultural Society, Chelsea Flower Show 2010.
By Garden Designer Adam S Bailey. A large estate garden, with modern water features, classic avenues of box-lined pergolas and stunning views to the woodland beyond.
Gardens Designed for South Facing Aspects
By Garden Designer Catherine Heatherington. Here are some south facing gardens for inspiration.
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