The People’s Choice Award 2020

Edward Freeman MSGD - Adare Manor

The focus for the restoration included the main gate, the arrival court, the formal parterre garden and the introduction of new landscape elements and views to connect into the wider estate

Acres Wild; Principal Designer Debbie Roberts MSGD - Blue Doors

To provide a simple, relaxed and timeless garden to enhance the house and sit comfortably within the downland setting. Being a weekend retreat the garden had to be relatively easy to maintain.

Charlotte Rowe Garden Design; Principal Designer Charlotte Rowe - Chiswick Garden

To create a ‘secret garden’ in the triangular space and a secondary dining ‘destination’ off the kitchen and unite these spaces with visually attractive paths; all are visible from ground floor windows.

Marian Boswall MSGD - Contemporary Courtyard

To re-configure the garden to complement the newly re-modelled interior spaces; increasing biodiversity, that could be left periodically, and provide a series of secluded outdoor rooms for entertaining and Pilates

Adolfo Harrison MSGD - East Dulwich

To create a garden for children and adults from a narrow garden dominated by the side of the neighbours’ house which made you look upwards and feel small in scale.

Sara Jane Rothwell MSGD - Hermitage Lane

To provide a flush threshold from the kitchen, for a young couple with a baby, and create intimate seating areas with good access to the garage.

Helen Elks-Smith MSGD - Lymington Garden

To connect the house style, set in the centre of 3 acres, to the rural landscape and woodland with several terraces to support relaxed seating, dining and simple cooking outside

Rosemary Coldstream MSGD - Modern Garden

To renovate and improve the garden as the house was extended; the entrances to the house were relocated, resulting in a complete re-think of the external spaces with a bold imaginative design.

Mandy Buckland MSGD - Modern Meadow

To provide a garden to attract bees, butterflies, moths and birds with a simple layout, a meadow, a mown path to a sunny terrace, and a shady border below the kitchen window.

Jane Brockbank MSGD - Pocket Garden

To change the ground level to match the new house’s lower floor so the garden provides a beautiful backdrop to the main living space. Screen the garage and provide access to the street.

Butter Wakefield - Ribbon Wheel Garden

To create a purposeful, inviting garden for dining and relaxing with space to entertain that would contrast to the adjacent minimalist, rectilinear style communal garden and ensuring security and privacy.

Sue Townsend MSGD - Samphire

To provide for the front garden a planting design suited to seaside conditions with visual interest, partial screening of the drive and privacy from the road.  The back to be a relaxed secluded garden.

Andy Sturgeon FSGD - Snowberry Hill

To make a contemporary garden for entertaining that was less cramped and would allow the house to sit more comfortably within its plot while giving important consideration to the views

Marian Boswall MSGD - Sussex Farmhouse

To enhance the setting of the house within the extended landscape with plenty of parking and create an elegant entertaining terrace with views, a place for their sculptures as well as increase biodiversity

John Davies - Stylus

Third and fourth floor roof terraces’ reflecting the ethos of the new development, were planned together with a narrow basement courtyard sandwiched between the building and adjacent ground floor car park.

Stuart Craine MSGD - Thornhill Road

To provide a relaxed garden that at first glance looks slightly wild and natural but is carefully planned with terraces catching the sun at different times and making an environmental contribution.