The Gardener

Growing Gardens Gently.

Jessica is a creative, hands on gardener and designer who works collaboratively with clients, assisting them with garden layout, plant selection and ongoing care to create places of beauty, abundance and biodiversity. Working between London and Bristol, she can help you with projects from full garden redesign, including construction plans and liaison with landscapers, to simply refreshing the planting in borders. Her approach is to create plant-led schemes that are naturalistic in style, seasonally interesting and are cared for organically. She has a love and respect for the wild and a belief that a gentle approach to gardening creates places that feel like home.

Qualifications and Awards.

RHS Level 2 Certificate in the Principles of Plant Growth and Development (2025)
Sustainable Horticulture Residency at Schumacher College, Dartington (2022)
Permaculture Design Certificate x 2 (2019 & 2022)
RHS Gold Medal (Malvern 2019)
Garden Design Diploma with Distinction (2018)

Horticultural Experience.

Gardener – Bristol, Bath and London including in organic and biodynamic settings.
Regenerative farming – Somerset.
Propagation – Special Plants near Bath.
Horticultural research – BBC Gardeners’ World.
Garden design – London and Bristol.

Testimonials

“We have worked for many years with Jess and she has absolutely transformed our garden. She surveyed the land in detail and then supported me to design what I dreamed for the space. Her knowledge and understanding of plants wildlife and the land itself is astounding and it’s been so enriching to learn from her as my garden progresses. Jess is a great listener and very intuitive to what is right for the flora and fauna of a garden. Her decisions are drawn from her extensive knowledge of the natural world and grounded deeply in positive ethics and values for the land. She is hardworking, reliable, thorough and deeply thoughtful in all her work. Thank you Jess for transforming my garden for our family!”

Hannah, Pensford

“Jess has been such a joy to work with throughout our garden renovation journey. We have a relatively small urban garden that is quirky in it’s layout and sprawls over different levels. Jess has worked collaboratively with us every step of the way to problem solve how the make the most of this space. She created a final design that maximises fun for the children, allows us plenty of space for socialising and brings colourful and wild nature that will be easy to maintain even with our limited gardening skills! Jess organised several face to face and online calls during which she helped to draw out our hopes and family needs to create plans that we then went onto tweak collaboratively. Jess’s knowledge of plants and gardens alongside her technical and communication skills make her a perfect designer to work with.”

Amanda, Bristol