Alexa Ryan-Mills - Planting & Garden Designer

Skip to Content

follow ME ON INSTAGRAM

Seriously zingy planting in Oxfordshire. Garden designed by @lucyconochie. Planting by me. Garden care by @lwa_gardens

Zingy Euphorbia wulfenii and E. epithymoides with a couple of different geums and Seslaria autumnalis at the base. A heptacodium b

Gorgeous pics taken by gardener @georgiekbarnes at our project near Saffron Walden completed last year. Garden design by @lucyconochie, build by @suffolklandscapeconstruction and planting designed by moi.

👋 I think it’s really time I reintroduce myself. ⁠Is it too late to say happy new year?
⁠
My name’s Alexa and I provide freelance planting design for garden designers, landscape architects and architects throughout the UK.

I’ve wo

Winter has arrived at this Cotswolds garden designed by @lucyconochie. I worked with her on the planting design and @lwa_gardens has been in charge of aftercare.

Designing in - and not chopping back - plenty of grasses and perennials that are eithe

Lovely way to spend a rainy evening last night enjoying the new book by former tutor and all round legend @fishertomlin. Andrew and all the tutors and visiting lecturers on my planting design diploma course at @londoncollegegardendesign taught me so

Celebrating this project’s first autumn after a very hot and dry summer. Thankful for the rains that came a few weeks ago. Here we’ve teamed up with @studiogrieveson on a sloping garden leading to a basement extension and deep retrofit of

Another project I’ve had the pleasure of working on with @lucyconochie over the last year. Here’s a glimpse of the planting near Saffron Walden taken a couple of weeks ago.

Garden designed by @lucyconochie, built by @suffolklandscapecon

about

Alexa is a planting designer, collaborating with landscape architects and garden designers in the UK. Based in Walthamstow, she also provides garden consultations and planting design for homeowners.

EXPLORE

Copyright © 2025 Alexa Ryan-Mills. We use cookies to help us improve your experience on our website. Please continue browsing if you're happy with this.
You can also read our Privacy & Cookie Policy.