The Journey

My journey began in the days when I would pack my satchel with sandwiches and my sketchbook and cycle out into the nearby countryside, I was just 13 yrs old. I’d spend the day sketching and exploring, daydreaming in meadows of one day being a botanist or great explorer.

I ended up following my fathers footsteps and went into a career in Horticulture, where my love of plants, colours and nature made my work my joy.

unfortunately life sometimes throws in a curveball and due to my physical health I found I couldn’t work the way I always had. It was time to rethink and refocus! As I sat in my garden recuperating from multiple surgeries I found the answer.

I watched as a Wren hopped amongst my plants, picking off spiders and aphids ,I held my breath as butterflies came to sit by my chair, dragonflies, bees, my garden was alive! and I only have a small garden which definatly wasnt designed to be a wildlife garden! I couldn’t get out to the countryside but I didnt have too, I could observe and enjoy it right here, and then came the lightbulb moment.. I could help others get this too..I would go back to Designing gardens but with nature in mind, giving them sanctuary and space to rest too…….