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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. 
RHS Chelsea   — a Textile Garden for Fashion Revolution

A Textile Garden for Fashion Revolution explored the relationship between plants and textiles and inspired visitors to ask #whatsinmyclothes? 




Throughout history, plants have played a fundamental role in fashion - as dyes, fibres, floral motifs and in botanical folklore, connecting us to a place, a story or a culture.

While trekking in Northern Vietnam, Lottie saw how families grew the plants to make their clothes alongside their vegetables and was fascinated by the close relationship between what they wore and what was growing in their gardens. However in our globalised world, this connection is rapidly being lost.

A Textile Garden for Fashion Revolution provided a unique opportunity to showcase the creative possibilities and innovative thinking around how we can use the resources that are literally on our doorsteps to create more sustainable solutions.

It re-established the connection between plants and textiles, revealed the beauty to be found in plant-based dyes and fibres

The garden design imitated a textile, with planting in distinctive blocks of colour to create the impression of a woven fabric. Plants were supplied by UK nurseries and growers and were chosen for their use as fibres or textile dyes in commercial or craft use. The garden also featured a textile installation made entirely from plants by students of Headington School Oxford. Shallow reflective pools represented dye baths, with fabric or fibres soaking in natural dyes, and a series of paved seams led through the planting. 

The garden attracted nationwide press coverage and was widely featured in gardening, lifestyle and environmental press.

The garden was made up entirely of plants that can be used as dye or fibre, to illustrate the creative possibilities of doing more with less.

Sketches, reference images and stages ︎︎︎
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