Lottie Delamain
DirectorLottie started working life in textile design and spent six years living and working in South-East Asia working in fashion and homewares. On returning to the UK, Lottie retrained in Garden Design at the Inchbald School of Design, graduating with Distinction. Since then she has been working on gardens around the UK, from small urban spaces to historic estates and commercial developments.
Lottie is passionate about connecting people to the natural world and the underrated story-telling power of gardens. In May 2022, Lottie completed her first show garden at RHS Chelsea, A Textile Garden for Fashion Revolution.
She has been featured widely in the press, talks and chairs panels on gardens and design, and regularly writes for House & Garden. Lottie is a big advocate for the power of gardens to enrich our lives, and is a trustee of We Are Grow a charity working with schools & communities delivering programmes in sustainable food growing & outdoor learning. Her first book, published by Thames & Hudson is out in Spring 2026.
Lottie is passionate about connecting people to the natural world and the underrated story-telling power of gardens. In May 2022, Lottie completed her first show garden at RHS Chelsea, A Textile Garden for Fashion Revolution.
She has been featured widely in the press, talks and chairs panels on gardens and design, and regularly writes for House & Garden. Lottie is a big advocate for the power of gardens to enrich our lives, and is a trustee of We Are Grow a charity working with schools & communities delivering programmes in sustainable food growing & outdoor learning. Her first book, published by Thames & Hudson is out in Spring 2026.
Ben Brace
Landscape Architect CMLI
Ben is a Chartered Landscape Architect, Project Manager and Horticulturalist with 18 years experience across a range of projects and scales.
He spent several years at the Royal Horticultural Society playing a major role in delivering the Key Investment Projects, most notably at RHS Garden Bridgewater. More recently he has worked on the delivery of high end, complex landscapes, with a focus on commercial development projects throughout London.
A self-confessed plant nerd, Ben is a champion of community green spaces, Ben loves the challenge of integrating green infrastructure into urban sites and enabling equitable access for all.
He spent several years at the Royal Horticultural Society playing a major role in delivering the Key Investment Projects, most notably at RHS Garden Bridgewater. More recently he has worked on the delivery of high end, complex landscapes, with a focus on commercial development projects throughout London.
A self-confessed plant nerd, Ben is a champion of community green spaces, Ben loves the challenge of integrating green infrastructure into urban sites and enabling equitable access for all.
Fred Tiffin
Garden DesignerFred came to garden design from a career as a documentary producer working all over the world in news, current affairs and sport. He retrained at the
London College of Garden Design at Kew, graduating with a distinction and then began his career at Cameron Gardens before joining the studio in 2024.
He is an avid gardener, passionate plantsman and devout believer in the capacity of nature to cure the soul. He learnt his love of romantic, naturalistic gardens from his father’s rose collection and has a gimlet eye for good design. Today his designs draw on many years of travelling, having visited over 70 countries and counting. When he’s not in the garden with his dog Olive, he might well be found at Stamford Bridge supporting his other love Chelsea.
He is an avid gardener, passionate plantsman and devout believer in the capacity of nature to cure the soul. He learnt his love of romantic, naturalistic gardens from his father’s rose collection and has a gimlet eye for good design. Today his designs draw on many years of travelling, having visited over 70 countries and counting. When he’s not in the garden with his dog Olive, he might well be found at Stamford Bridge supporting his other love Chelsea.
We are a small multidisciplinary team of designers & plants people who believe in the positive power of gardens
Gardens are precious spaces that can transform how we live - they tie us to the seasons, help us feel connected to nature, and tell stories about who we are, the lives we live and where we are in the world. They also provide a vital link in a giant interconnected mosaic of green spaces around the world.
We pride ourselves on reaching beyond the world of horticulture and landscape design, working closely with a broad network of collaborators and specialists to help unlock all your green space has to offer .
We pride ourselves on reaching beyond the world of horticulture and landscape design, working closely with a broad network of collaborators and specialists to help unlock all your green space has to offer .
How we work
We have no ‘house-style’ because every project is unique, born out of conversations with you the client and the environment the garden will live in.
However there are some shared values and themes we return to:
Where possible we try and embrace local (better still, pre-exisiting) materials, and find innovative ways to work with them, rather than shipping in resource heavy alternatives from around the world.
We try not to over design. Simple is often better.
There’s no compromise between having a beautiful garden and one that is a feast for pollinators and wildlife. All gardens can do both.
We will almost always recommend planting a tree (or few).
We value working with experts in other fields - collaborating with ecologists, artists, furniture makers is always welcome, and often what brings the magic.
As well as beautiful, gardens need to be practical too. How you live is a fundamental part of the brief (although we’re unable to make promises on a totally maintenance-free garden).
We like a bit of mess. Gardens are living things, and like us they are not supposed to be immaculate and picture-perfect every day.
When we start on a project, we hope we will still be involved with the garden many years after it is officially “finished” because gardens are a process and the best gardens emerge and evolve over time.
Collaborators
studio@lottiedelamain.com
+44 (0)7393 989 059
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Copyright © Lottie Delamain Design Ltd. — Company No: 16204793
