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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. 
Poole   — jurassic scale and modernist form

Towering Scots Pines, unruly levels & incredible views make for high drama and plenty of atmosphere




The garden three months after completion
This garden was a challenge in all the best ways - steep unruly levels, towering Scots Pines that give incredible scale and drama,  and a sandy shallow soil that runs down to the coast. The garden we began with was a hotch-potch of materials and rotten decking, with an incongruous collection of plants. We needed to bring coherence to the space, make it work for living outdoors, but without infringing on its inherent character and charm. 

First we had to carve out usable spaces - we created a series of decks with more generous proportions that hugged the hillside rather that protruded and created comfortable spaces for seating and a hot tub. Others are tucked into the garden creating destinations to discover. 

Custom poured slabs of etched concrete float across the garden, creating stepping stones through the woodland. 



   
The paving tiptoes through the garden, creating pathways down the hillside and leading to hidden covered decks and at the far end a boules court with views across the valley, a sunny spot to while away an afternoon. Boulders shore up the slopes and provide stepping stones for the more adventurous.

With our trees already there, we created an understory of shade loving plants, taking inspiration from New Zealand and Australia. Tree ferns, grasses and phormiums provide structure and texture, lovely Leptospermum (the tea-tree plant) creates a shrubby layer and hit of bruised pink. 

On the terrace, basking in sunshine, the planting leans towards a desert climes - Agaves and Knipofia sit alongside glacus blue Festucas.

This garden was completed in April 2025 and will be photographed professionally in Summer 2026.

Process images and stages ︎︎︎
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