As We Near Our Christmas Break… Ann-Marie, Mary, Gemma, and Penny would like to wish you, your families, friends, and loved ones a very happy holiday and all best wishes for 2024. We also hope for your health and happiness in the New Year to come. – As is our tradition, instead of sending cards we will be making a donation to Greenfingers Charity who fundraise to build gardens for children’s hospices throughout the UK. – We also wanted to say a huge thank you for all of your support throughout 2023, it has been a wonderful year for us as a practice and we look forward to an even better 2024 ..read more

Junior Landscape Architect Penny Walker is Named One of Pro Landscaper’s 30 Under 30 for 2023 Join us in celebrating our talented team member Penny Walker, for her outstanding achievement in winning a Pro Landscaper ’30 under 30’ award. This prestigious honour recognises the brightest young talents in landscape and horticulture, and Penny has truly earned her place amongst them. It was brilliant to be able to go to Futurescape at Excel London to celebrate Penny receiving her award and seeing so many interesting products and companies all in one place. From a very young age, Penny set ..read more

It feels like just yesterday, but several weeks have already passed since the Garden Media Guild awards, impeccably hosted at London’s iconic Savoy Hotel. It was an absolute honour for Ann-Marie to be asked to present the ‘Garden Video of the Year’ alongside the legendary @Charles_Dowding, who also sponsored the category. Garden Media Guild Awards 2023 The Garden Video of the Year Award Sponsored by: @Charles_Dowding, Presented by: Ann-Marie Powell and Charles Dowding And the Winner Is… It was won by Alex Smith aka @alex.grows.food‘s entertaining and informative video: “Can You Be Se ..read more

Ann-Marie Powell Gardens returns to the Chelsea Showground We have been hard at work for the past year and we are thrilled to finally reveal what we’ve been working on. We are proud to introduce you all to our show garden for RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024 The Octavia Hill Garden by Blue Diamond with the National Trust Ann-Marie Powell Gardens is excited to announce our participation in the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2024. Sponsored by Blue Diamond Garden Centres and the National Trust, the brief was to design a garden that pays tribute to Octavia Hill, the co-founder of the National Trust. We ..read more

Ann-Marie Powell is honoured (and delighted!) to be selected by House & Garden Magazine as one of the Top 50 Garden Designers in their July 2023 issue. She is humbled to be in such auspicious company – dear friends and colleagues who have inspired so many with their work (Ann-Marie included), and who have warmly shared and supported Ann-Marie in her career since first training at Capel Manor College in the mid nineties. If you have a project you would like us to help with, then please do not hesitate to get in touch. You can find our feature project galleries within our website’s portfo ..read more

Ann-Marie Powell features in Gardens Illustrated list. Astonished and thrilled that Ann-Marie Powell Gardens is included in a list of the most inspiring female gardeners and garden designers in British history assembled by leading UK garden magazine Gardens Illustrated. It is a huge honour to feature amongst so many of my contemporaries – friends and colleagues all of whom I hugely admire and respect. And to be named amongst my horticultural heroines in British history – Gertrude Jekyll, Vita Sackville-West, Sylvia Crowe and Rosemary Verey to name but a few is especially humbling.   ..read more

How Spring Bulbs Light up Your Garden… When it comes to adding colour and personality to your spring garden, nothing does it quite like spring bulbs. Available in a huge array of colours, planted before the border plants wake up, these humble looking bulbs quietly wait underground for their time to shine. But when that time rolls around, they put on a vibrant and colourful display that is nature’s equivalent of fireworks. From the familiar to the unusual Spring bulbs include some of the most recognizable flowers, such as tulips, daffodils, and crocuses, as well as lesser-known varieties l ..read more

I am hugely proud and excited to be included in the second series of Art of the Garden on Sky Arts airing from Tuesday 9th of May at 7pm. The programme can be viewed on Sky channel 130, as well as Freeview channel 11 and Freesat channel 147. This beautifully shot series, made for Sky Arts by Colonial Pictures is a must watch and features six designers discussing their design approaches and processes are and I’m honoured and delighted to be amongst such inspiring peers. Programme details below: Tuesday 9 May 7.00pm Episode 1 Piet Oudolf, Scampston Hall   Tuesday 16 May 7.00pm Episode 2 L ..read more

Ann-Marie Powell honoured in 100 Leading Women in Horticulture 2023 List… For over 25 years I’ve been proud to work in an industry in which The Landscape Institute’s Skills for Greener Places report recently reviewed skills and workforce issues, revealing that the landscape sector is male-dominated. So no surprises there then! It found management and build have the highest male concentrations, at 99.6% and 86.7% of their respective totals. To be completely honest, in my career, it’s been rare (but NOT unheard of) that I have personally found this to be a challenge – on the whole horticultur ..read more

As We Prepare for Our Christmas Break… Ann-Marie, Mary, Gemma, and Penny would like to wish you, your families, friends, and loved ones a very happy holiday and all best wishes for 2023. We also hope for your health and happiness in the New Year to come. – As is our tradition, instead of sending cards we will be making a donation to Greenfingers Charity who fundraise to build gardens for children’s hospices throughout the UK. – We also wanted to say a huge thank you for all of your support throughout 2022, it has been an extraordinary year for us as a practice and we look forward to an even ..read more