MEDIA — Alexa Ryan-Mills - Planting & Garden Designer

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

Glimpses of the planting on this wonderful project in the Cotswolds. @lucyconochie designed this garden and I’ve been lucky enough to collaborate with her on the planting design. We only planted in the spring and look at it already. More to com

It’s been a really busy couple of months with lots of new garden designer clients and varied projects. I’ve been working on planting design for rural properties in Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Norfolk, Essex and an 18th century grade two

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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.

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