Lottie Delamain

Director
Lottie 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.

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.


Fred Tiffin

Garden Designer
Fred 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. 
Bruin Wood  — a garden fit for the house 

Sometimes a house needs a garden to bring it to life





A handsome neo-Georgian house that sits proudly at the top of a hill, overlooking the woods. Recently it has become home to a young family, breathing new life into a house and garden that has much to give.

A sea of concrete paving surrounded the house, vast lifeless lawns carpeted the hills and a decorative pond provided a home to a family of koi carp. We are remimagining the garden with family life and wildlife in mind.

The pond is to become a naturalistic pool to dip toes and watch dragonflies. A new series of garden rooms bring both order and complexity to the garden - a paradise garden of cut flowers, a lawn for ball games and a productive garden to feed tummies and imaginations. 

... a naturalistic pool for dipping toes and watching dragonflies



Conrete is being replaced with natural stone and porous gravel and lawns will be left less mown.

Gavanised troughs and dolly tubs will bring informality and age, spilling over with dolly-mixtures dahlias and daisies. In the paradise garden, a shallow pool will refelct the sky and seasons. 

Work is on going, but hope to give the garden back to its new owners in Spring 2026. 

Moodboard and reference images