So wonderful to go back to my roots and visit Hall Barn at Tendercare, where Andrew and Angela Halksworth were generous (and brave enough) to give me my very first job, and with it cultivated a lifelong passion in me for plants. On graduating back [...]
Showcasing a world of edible inspiration, the newly planted Wildlife garden at Royal Horticultural Society Wisley Hilltop, the home of Gardening Science is burgeoning. The highly skilled edibles team of Royal Horticultural Society gardeners have poured everything they've got into planting up the new one acre space. [...]
We have an exciting opportunity for a Junior Garden Designer or Landscape Architect to join our enthusiastic team, working on a variety of private, public and commercial gardens. As a recent graduate you will be looking to take your first step into an exciting [...]
“A garden is a place to reflect, feel restored, play, laugh, make friends, grieve and much more” Elizabeth Reid, author of Children’s Hospice Gardens. It is my honour to share with you that we have been appointed as designers to deliver the 4.5 acre landscape at The Nook, a children's [...]
I feel honoured to be included as one of the 100 Leading Women in UK horticulture today, in one of the horticultural industry's most respected trade magazines, Horticulture Week. The list was prompted as a celebration of Women in Horticulture on International Women's Day on 8th March 2021 [...]
We’re delighted to learn that Ann-Marie Powell Gardens Limited have won a “Best Of Houzz” award for Design on Houzz®, the leading platform for home renovation and design. Our Petersfield, Hampshire based garden design studio was chosen by the millions of homeowners that comprise the Houzz community from [...]
If you’d have told me this time last year that I’d have new horticulturist friends from New Zealand, America and even Ghana, I would have smiled politely and carried on sowing seed thinking where on earth would I find the time for that! And yet, an unexpected [...]
The English Garden magazine is a favourite read in the AMPG studio, so I couldn’t have been more thrilled when Editorial Assistant Phoebe Jayes telephoned to ask me if she could interview me for their regular ‘People to Meet’ feature, introducing the gardeners and public figures they most admire in [...]
Just as in any creative industry, garden design trends shift and change. Ideas must always progress, with new thinking creeping in whilst other approaches edge away, occasionally to be picked up, reworked and refreshed for another day. Here at AMPG, we don’t design thinking about the trends we may be creating, we try [...]
As 2021 gets into its stride, so does the build on the new World Food Garden we've designed at Royal Horticultural Society Wisley. Designed by our studio in collaboration with the Wisley edibles team led by Sheila Das, it was rather wonderful to read dynamic RHS Wisley curator Matthew Pottage revealing our plans in the [...]
