Awards
The Ideal Home Show - Gold Medal and People’s Choice Award
At the beginning of 2014 I co-designed the Capel Manor College entry to the Ideal Home Show at Earls Court with Lucy Conochie. The garden won a gold medal and, even better, the People’s Choice award, voted by the 22,000 visitors to the show.Built entirely from reclaimed materials, the garden was designed as a sustainable retreat for a city dweller, where water is recycled from the house roof, via stormwater planters, for use in the garden. The design included bird boxes and a stumpery, encouraging beneficial insects into the garden in order to naturally control plant pests. Recycled reinforced steel joists served as wall planters for succulents and rills for the water feature.
The garden was on display for over two weeks inside the exhibition centre at Earls Court – a challenge in terms of the planting!
The Masters' Garden- The Redesign of a public garden in Houndsditch in the heart of the City of London
In 2015 I won a competition organised by the Worshipful Company of Gardeners, an ancient City of London Livery company. The brief was to redesign the planting in a garden in the City of London in a manner that promoted innovation through sustainable planting and good horticultural practices,and which could become a working model for other City gardens to follow.The competition was conceived by the Earl of Wessex, who was the Master of the Livery company during the year the competition was run. My planting design aimed to create a haven for office workers in the heart of the City and incorporated lots of wildlife friendly planting, fragrance and tactile plants.
The garden is surrounded by office blocks and my design took into consideration the many office workers who would be viewing the garden from above, incorporating a good framework of structural plants and repeated drifts of planting.I worked with the City of London Corporation on the implementation of the design. However, work is currently on hold whilst the Corporation redevelops the wider Aldgate area.
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