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Arts and Crafts house and garden I love designing gardens around Arts and Crafts houses.  Introducing beautiful, sometimes quirky features and placing the emphasis on highly skilled craftsmanship is what this design movement was all about.  The owners of this amazing house in Central Scotland fully...

  This garden won a Principal BALI award in 2014 for Water Gems and has been featured in RHS The Garden,  Gardens Illustrated, The English Garden and The Guardian weekend supplement.  Photographs in these articles were taken by garden photographer Andrea Jones. The following is taken from...

Award-winning garden I designed this Merchiston garden in 2013 for clients I had worked with previously in Edinburgh's New Town and in Boat of Garten near Aviemore.  They bought this sandstone villa in need of complete renovation and asked me to design a garden with plenty...

Garden lighting design I've worked for a number of years with lighting designer and installer Mark Dunion from MGD Electrical.  He has introduced me to a number of different lighting effects and has guided me on where and when to use them.  With this East Kilbride...

Arts and Crafts House This stunning Arts and Crafts house is set in many acres of gardens and woodland.  The clients had just begun refurbishing the interior of the house when I first visited and were keen to include the gardens in the overall design project....

Our garden This is our garden.  It has a dainty footprint but is the perfect size for a city garden inhabited by Robin and me, our children and our dog, Maggie.  It is an ever-evolving space in which we experiment and dream in equal measure. Garden accessories We...