Before establishing my own garden design practice I gained experience working in habitat management and conservation. After this I set up own garden maintenance business whilst also studying to be a Garden Designer. Working maintaining gardens helped to improve my knowledge about how plants work together to create a unified scheme and also how they respond to different aspects and locations. Once qualified as a Garden Designer, I gained invaluable work experience working within larger high profile design and landscaping companies. These included Roger Platts (winner of numerous gold medals at the Chelsea flower show) and well known Chichester based landscapers, Millstone Landscapes Ltd. This work experience helped me to understand more about the logistics of running projects and about the technicalities of the hard landscaping aspects of the gardens I created.
