About Bea...
Bea is a qualified Garden Designer based in Cumbria, with a Diploma in Residential Garden & Landscape Design. She has run her own practice for 10 years and has experience designing and planting up gardens of all shapes, sizes and budgets.
She combines her practical knowledge with creativity to produce workable designs for all types of spaces.
She combines her practical knowledge with creativity to produce workable designs for all types of spaces.
Always keen to learn and absorb new ideas, Bea loves visiting gardens, talking to nurserymen, and working closely with skilled local landscapers. She is a committee member of the Cumbria Gardens Trust which works hard to conserve and protect historic gardens in the county.
She is also an active member of the RHS, and after visiting Chelsea and Hampton Court Flower Shows for several years really enjoyed the chance to join the designers and landscaping team (below) building the David Harber Show Garden at Chelsea Flower Show 2015.
She is also an active member of the RHS, and after visiting Chelsea and Hampton Court Flower Shows for several years really enjoyed the chance to join the designers and landscaping team (below) building the David Harber Show Garden at Chelsea Flower Show 2015.
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"Dutch New Wave" style perennial planting at Chaumont Sur Loire
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Strong use of colour - lemon yellow Angelica flowering against a purple fence at the Floriade 2012
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Inspiration:
Her work takes inspiration from the contemporary use of grasses and perennials by Garden Designers such as Piet Oudolf , James van Sweden and Wolfgang Oehme. The academic research into rainwater gardens and robust perennial planting by Nigel Dunnet and James Hitchmough are particularly relevant in these times of changing climate. She admires the contrast between structural and soft planting in gardens by Dan Pearson and Arne Maynard, and enjoys following the work of leading garden designers on the international stage eg Ron Lutsko, Ulf Nordfell and Dominique Lafourcade.
Her work takes inspiration from the contemporary use of grasses and perennials by Garden Designers such as Piet Oudolf , James van Sweden and Wolfgang Oehme. The academic research into rainwater gardens and robust perennial planting by Nigel Dunnet and James Hitchmough are particularly relevant in these times of changing climate. She admires the contrast between structural and soft planting in gardens by Dan Pearson and Arne Maynard, and enjoys following the work of leading garden designers on the international stage eg Ron Lutsko, Ulf Nordfell and Dominique Lafourcade.