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Hilversum in Mid-May 🌿
There is a particular moment in spring when a garden feels both settled and full of anticipation. These photographs, taken in mid-May at one of our gardens in Hilversum, capture that fleeting transition.

A matrix of grasses, Sesleria, Melica, Carex and Luzula, forms the framework of the planting, creating a soft, cohesive layer through which a diverse community of perennials emerges. Amsonia, Epimedium, Anthriscus and Stellaria weave together with spring bulbs including Poet’s Narcissus and Camassia, bringing movement, texture and seasonal interest throughout the garden.

What makes this planting particularly rewarding is its ability to adapt to highly varied conditions. From open sunny clearings to deep woodland shade, the plant palette shifts in response to light and soil moisture. Yet despite these changes, the planting remains visually connected, creating the impression of a single, unified landscape. ✨

Meandering gravel paths draw visitors into the garden, encouraging exploration and revealing new plant combinations at every turn. The experience changes with each season, and even from one walk to the next, as different species rise, flower and recede within the community.

Beyond its visual richness, the planting is designed to support a thriving ecology. Dense layers of vegetation provide habitat, shelter and forage for a wide range of insects and wildlife, ensuring the garden is as alive environmentally as it is aesthetically. 🐞

A garden such as this rewards curiosity: the more time spent wandering through it, the more there is to discover.

📸 @garymorrisroe

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Spring in Hilversum, bring it on! 🥳🌿

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It is a pleasure to be acknowledged by @houseandgardenuk as one of the Top 25 Garden and Landscape Designers in the UK. It’s an honour to be recognised alongside esteemed colleagues. Congratulations to everyone. 🥳🌿

Making gardens is a process of time and involves a great team of people, including our clients who allow our creativity to flow.
Every garden regardless of its size plays an important role in a larger landscape to provide wellbeing, and to support ecology. 🌿✨

A Garden of Sequences and Seasons in Surrey 🌿

This garden unfolds as a quiet journey, three distinct yet connected landscapes, moving from intimate to open, ornamental to productive. 🌿

Closest to the house, a naturalistic garden wraps around softly curving slate paths, with layered planting that shifts through the seasons. Spaces for sitting and dining are gently woven into the planting, creating an immersive, calm atmosphere. ✨

A cleft chestnut fence marks a subtle transition into a wildflower meadow. Here, the garden opens up, looser, more spontaneous, and rich in biodiversity. Mown paths guide movement while maintaining a dialogue with the wider landscape.

Beyond, the space becomes a productive kitchen garden, balancing beauty and utility. Vegetables and cut flowers grow within the same naturalistic framework, allowing function and aesthetics to coexist.

Simple, tactile materials slate, timber, and chestnut cleft fencing ground the design in its context, creating a layered experience that connects people to nature and the rhythm of the seasons. 🍃

📸 @garymorrisroe
🌿 @leongardens
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Three Urban Stories: Designing Distinctive City Landscapes🌿

Join us for a Masterclass exploring three contrasting city gardens, each shaped by its architectural setting, client brief, and spatial constraints.

From a Balham garden where a bold tiled feature wall establishes a strong dialogue with the planting palette, to a refined Chelsea courtyard defined by jasmine, water, and carefully detailed steel elements, and an Amsterdam project transforming a former parking space into a biodiverse retreat, each scheme offers a unique perspective on urban living.

Across these projects, we’ll share design strategies, material choices, and planting approaches that respond precisely to context while creating expressive, liveable outdoor spaces.

Discover how urban garden design can:
🌱 Respond intelligently to tight spatial constraints
🌿 Integrate architecture, materials, and planting
🏡 Create atmosphere and identity in dense city settings
✨ Support biodiversity in unexpected places

Expect practical insight and planting knowledge drawn from real, built work.

Whether you’re a designer, horticulturalist, or simply interested in city gardens, this session offers ideas you can apply to your own space.

📆 Date: May 14, 2026
⏰ Time: 6.30pm (BST) - Duration: approx 1.5-2 hours
🌎 Where: Online (Click on SECOND link in bio to register!)

EARLY BIRD TICKETS ENDING 30th APRIL.

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