Tisserand and Landscapes By Design are set to face off at the BBC Gardeners’ World Autumn Fair at the end of this month. Audley End House and Gardens in Essex will play host to the competition set by the Association of Professional Landscapers. The two companies...
‘Giving back’ will be the theme of the Society of Garden Designers’ takeover of the Inspire Theatre at this year’s FutureScape. Three talks will take place at the event on 16 October at the ExCeL London from members of the association, all centred about the SGD’s...
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) is hosting a series of seminars in the Inspire Theatre at this year’s FutureScape. Visitors will gain a wealth of knowledge on how to create a show garden, from funding to planting, on 15 October at the ExCeL London. RHS shows garden judging manager Eleanor Hollingworth will kick off the day by hosting a...
The showcase garden at this year’s BBC Gardeners’ World Autumn Fair will celebrate the way the raised beds have ‘revolutionised’ gardening. The Raised Bed Revealed, designed by gardening writer and presenter David Hurrion, will show the adaptability of the growing method, from using them to grow vegetables to tailoring them to suit ornamentals....
Despite being based in Essex, marketing assistant for RUBI, Emily MacLean has recently found herself much further south than usual, involved in what is being called “The Plymouth Project.” MacLean and the team at RUBI discovered the project when a lady, Hannah, had entered a competition being held by a well-known landscaping influencer. She'd...
Landscape architect Peter Donegan is returning to the small screen alongside London-based contractor Maylim to transform a garden for The Julian Benson Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. In a one-off episode of Irish TV programme Room to Improve, the Dublin-based designer and Maylim will create a new outdoor area as part of a complete rebuild of a...
We need to “change the way we garden”, says the award-winning designer behind a new garden focused on climate resilience and biodiversity that has been revealed at Beningbrough Hall near York. Andy Sturgeon says the UK can expect “warmer summers with prolonged dry periods and drought, but also an increase in very wet days, particularly in...
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 will mark Project Giving Back’s final year of funding gardens for good causes, but this year there is a twist. Applicants for the 2026 instalment of RHS Chelsea can expect a slightly different process this time around. Since the charity’s inception in 2021, it has received over 400 expressions of interest from...
The Royal Horticultural Charity (RHS) and Colchester & Ipswich Hospital’s Charity opens new wellbeing garden at Colchester Hospital Essex, created in collaboration with NHS Charities Together. Designed by RHS ambassador and award-winning landscape designer, Adam Frost and built by Blakedown Landscapes, the new garden aims to provide NHS...
Following the success at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024, little interviews goes "live at Chelsea" to catch up with some of the garden designers that Pro Landscaper has been following throughout their Chelsea journey. The Bridgerton Garden is a secretive and secluded space, based on Penelope Featherington, a wallflower-like character from...
Those interested in designing a garden for RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025, rejoice, for applications are now open. Designers have two categories in which to choose from at present, including Gardens of Curiosity, an entirely new category to 2025. The new category looks to challenge designers in creating a stimulating and curious by...
Horticultural career changer and RHS student, Felicity Gray, completes debut Woking project, transforming a nature deprived site into a community enriched space in just seven days. Every year, students on the Level 4 RHS Diploma in Horticultural Practice at RHS Garden Wisley, Surrey, put forward a ‘Design and Build’ project. The winning design is...
A sustainability focused garden sponsored by F.H.Brundle and Straightcurve has been awarded a prestigious Silver Gilt medal at the Hampton Court Flower Show. Designed by Australian gardener Melanie Hick and built by Kamil Rybak of London HardLandscapes, the garden captured the hearts of judges and visitors alike with its innovative approach to...
Pro Landscaper launched the search for its tenth class of 30 Under 30: The Next Generation winners, in association with Green-tech on the first of May 2024. Now, there is only one week left to enter. Recognising up-and-coming talent within the industry, the awards celebrate the range of achievements and ambitions from young people in...
After three years, a singular route access space has been transformed by Greenfingers Charity into a sensory sanctuary in the heart of a local hospice. Located in the heart of Derian House Children’s Hospice, the Sensory Garden combines functionality and privacy, alongside places of reflection, fun and memorial. The space, previously only...
Following the success at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024, little interviews goes "live at Chelsea" to catch up with some of the garden designers that Pro Landscaper has been following throughout their Chelsea journey. The Stroke Association’s Garden for Recovery is a peaceful, sensory space to support stroke recovery. Highlighting that the...
Former Young Designer finalist, Ollie Pike, secures the win for Best Show Garden at this year’s RHS Flower Show Tatton Park. Pike’s design - which also won a Gold Medal - ‘This Garden Isn’t Finished Without You’ sponsored by The Methodist Church and built by Landstruction, encompasses an inclusive, communal space, open to all. With a planting...
The Pro Landscaper 30 Under 30: The Next Generation initiative has been running since 2015, and has seen 270 winners of this prestigious award. It has helped to propel them into the landscaping limelight, with most of the winners going on to bigger and better things since collecting their award. It’s the only industry search for the most...
Ashleigh Aylett secures the win for Young Designer of the Year at RHS Flower Show Tatton Park with her design that highlights the dramatic loss of trees across England. Aylett, who is also a 2023 Pro Landscaper 30 Under 30 winner, partnered with the Woodland Trust to create The Woodland Trust: 49% Garden for this year's RHS Tatton Park. The...
Accolades at the 2024 RHS Flower Show Tatton Park awarded, as the show kicks off today, running through to 21 July. Winning gardens are as follows: Gold Medals This Garden Isn’t Finished Without You sponsored by The Methodist Church Show Gardens Designed by Ollie Pike | Built by Landstruction The Safe Space Garden Career Changer Designed...
Following the success at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024, little interviews goes "live at Chelsea" to catch up with some of the garden designers that Pro Landscaper has been following throughout their Chelsea journey. The Freedom from Torture Garden: A Sanctuary for Survivors is a place of sanctuary, peace, and hope where horticultural therapy...
Winners for the Pro Landscaper Project Awards 2024, in association with Nth Degree, have been revealed at a ceremony in Surrey. Today, at Farnham Castle in Surrey, companies from across the industry came together to celebrate the creativity, innovation and practicality of landscaping projects, with a value up to £100k. With 67 projects...
RHS Young Designer of the Year Finalist 2023, Ollie Pike returns to the RHS Flower Show Tatton Park to reveal his second show garden, “This Garden Isn’t Finished Without You.” Landscape Architect and Garden Designer at Pike Studio grew up in rural South-West England where he was very lucky in his childhood that nature was always so readily...
Wyevale Nurseries is once again supplying plants for a selection of the ‘Long Border’ designs at the RHS Flower Show at Tatton Park taking place next week. Designed by final year landscape architect students, the four sponsored borders look to meet the RHS challenge of ‘Make a Statement’. Wyevale Nurseries’ amenity sales executive, Alan Young,...
This year’s winners of the coveted People’s Choice Award 2024 at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival have been revealed. Show Garden The Way Of Saint James Won: People’s Choice Best Show Garden | Silver medal Nilufer Danis’ scooped the award for People’s Choice for her St. James inspired design, symbolising the patron saint of Spain and...
Eden Project students, Victoria Jane Cucknell and Hayley Herridge, win Silver-Gilt and Gold, respectively for their Pocket Planting gardens at RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival this week. The Wild Child Cornwall, designed by Victoria Jane Cucknell, features a trail of balanced wood blocks leading to a series of growing willow sculptures...
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