An Evening of Gardens and Architecture

Johanna Gibbons is a Landscape Architect and Fellow of the Landscape Institute. She is founding Partner of J & L Gibbons in 1986 and founding Director of social enterprise Landscape Learn in 2006. In 2019 Jo was named RSA Royal Designer for Industry for her ‘pioneering and influential work combining design with activism, education and professional practice’. Jo is a research partner of Urban Mind with Kings College London, a panel advisor to Historic England and the Forestry Commission and a Trustee of Open City. She publishes and lectures widely.

After 25 years of running his own practice, Kim now works as a strategic and conceptual landscape consultant. He collaborates with architects and landscape architects around the world and combines designing with the muddy practicalities of running a small farm in Hampshire, where he is now based.

Kim studied history at Oxford and landscape architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, before setting up his landscape studio in London in 1989. He continues to teach and lecture in America; writes optimistically about land and place from Hampshire; and meddles in various national committees on landscape and environmental policy in the UK.

Daniel grew up in a horticultural household in Sudan and on Anglesey, North Wales, with parents holding Kew diploma and Landscape Design qualifications, and had learned all the plants in the hedgerow by a young age.
Drawing on prior training in fine art and graphic design Daniel started his own garden design business in 2008 and went on to study horticulture at Capel Manor College in 2009. He has designed gardens in London, over the UK and internationally.
His never-ending quest to learn of new plants and experience them in their natural habitats has seen him journey on numerous plant-hunting trips worldwide, including Japan & SW China (2007), Peruvian/Bolivian Andes (2009), Tyrolean Alps (2009), India (2010), Langtang, Nepal (2011), Sri Lanka (2012), Taiwan (2013), Colombia (2014), Turkey & Kyrgyzstan (2016)

We are a values-driven, award-winning landscape design practice of nine, led by Charlotte Harris and Hugo Bugg. We work on a range of projects across the UK and Europe encompassing high-end residential, public, historic and commercial spaces. These are often in protected landscapes, requiring a careful and considered approach to design and stewardship.

Understanding the spirit of the place is central to our approach, using vernacular materials, nearby nurseries and local craftspeople, so that the garden speaks of and is connected to its broader setting.

Our studio has won five Gold medals, two Silver Gilts and Best in Show at RHS shows – including three Gold medals at Chelsea, a BALI award, and a Landscape Institute award.

The studio is consistently listed as one of Country Life Magazine’s ‘Best Garden and Landscape Design Practices in Britain’ and Architectural Digest describes the spaces we make as “…soulful gardens that are rich with meaning, mystery, and relevance”. We are also proud to be one of the House & Garden Top 50, who describe us as “intuitive, enthusiastic and extremely hard-working”.

Ben Pentreath is one of the UK’s leading architectural and interior designers.
His London-based design studio has established a powerful reputation across a wide-ranging variety of disciplines.

Ben’s background is in Art History, which he studied at the University of Edinburgh before attending the Prince of Wales’s Institute of Architecture. He worked for five years in New York and then with the Prince’s Foundation, before starting his own practice in 2004.

Ben Pentreath’s book English Decoration was published in 2011. A sequel interiors book, English Houses, was published in 2016, and in 2024, he will publish a monograph of the firm’s work with Rizzoli.