Ann-Marie’s Directory of
Frequently Asked Questions
about Garden Design

A Year of Colour is your guide to creating a bold and bright garden. This seasonally-specific volume boasts 40 detailed planting combinations, accompanied by stunning photography of Ann-Marie’s personal garden. Whether you are seeking practical tips or exploring another plant-admirer’s garden, A Year of Colour aims to teach, excite, and inspire.
 

Historic Gardens & Landscapes are fundamental fixtures embodying Britain’s rich past and vibrant present. We carefully work alongside various historical societies, academics, and researchers to design landscapes and gardens that are beautiful, practical, and lasting. Our award-winning approach focuses on treasuring the past and ensuring the future of Britain’s historic properties can be enjoyed for generations.

Hotel and spa landscapes must strike a balance between year-round beauty and seasonal ambience. The goal is to design a landscape that is visually engaging year-round, and with longevity and commercial practicality in mind. Our award-winning approach focuses on enhancing the guest’s journey, ensuring the landscape design becomes a memorable, revenue-generating asset that supports restoration and brand loyalty.

Good landscape design and good architecture share the same DNA: precision, considered detail, and a deep understanding of how people use space. We work with architects as a fully integrated part of the design team, from early concept through to completion. We work in Vectorworks, understand architectural language, and can support BREEAM assessments and planning submissions.

From city courtyards and edible gardens to rooftop terraces and country estates, our dedicated team designs beautiful gardens that are bold, biodiverse and built around how you actually live. From initial concept through to finished planting, with as much ongoing support as you need. Explore our most common questions, our design approach, colour integration, wildlife, child-friendly gardens and more.

Landscape design for corporate and commercial properties can enhance property value, support employee well-being, and create a confident first impression. Our work strengthens planning applications & commercial negotiations, while communicating brand values including creativity, biodiversity, wellness, and more. Learn how we can elevate and transform existing spaces or new builds.

These services are designed for clients who want to benefit from our expertise and creativity, but have clear budget parameters or prefer to plant themselves. Choose from three service levels based on your wants and needs, from one-to-one consultations to design packages and standalone planting design. Learn more about how we approach small garden projects.

The garden design process begins with a consultation visit, where we walk the garden together to discuss existing planting, layouts, & your aspirations to envision what could be. From there, several rounds of site analysis, concept development, and feedback ultimately lead to a bespoke master plan. With multiple service levels available, we can find the right approach for you.

Show gardens provide a remarkable platform for connecting with engaged audiences. Beginning up to two years before the show, the studio supplies final designs, as well as dedicated management of applications, sponsorships, logistics, and execution. Ann-Marie’s show gardens have earned RHS Gold medals, the BBC People’s Choice Award and inaugural Children’s Choice Award, & more.

We adapt our approach for different climates such as temperate, Mediterranean, subtropical, arid, and tropical regions. Whether you are looking to create a traditional British garden design in another country, or a garden with British influences that respects local character and traditions, here are some of the questions our international clients most commonly ask.

Our accredited, award-winning garden and landscape design studio refuses to play it safe. We create bold, vibrant, biodiverse spaces that hum with colour and life. Each garden we design, no matter how big or small, is completely unique, and begins with Ann-Marie’s creative vision for the specific attributes of your space – no templates, no pre-existing schemes.