“Each design project is unique. We design each project as an instinctive response to the setting and our clients’ requirements. Unfussy detailing, structural forms and softer planting inform our garden making.”
Dean Bolton-Grant
Managing Director
Core to Dean’s vocation as a garden designer is his love of horticulture. His love of the outside world impacts his every decision as a garden designer.
After studying Horticulture at Kingston Maurward College, Dorset, Dean’s career has taken him across the UK and Europe. As a young horticulturist he worked for Raymond Blanc at Le Manoir as an organic gardener and then gardened for the Queen of Denmark. The Mediterranean was next on the career path, managing historic gardens and landscapes for the President and Prime Minister of Malta. Dean returned to the UK and chose to study Garden Design at Leeds Becket University where he combined his horticultural knowledge with his new-found European influences and this love of European design continues to influence his work today.
Dean has always been captivated by the romance and theatre of landscape as the seasons progress, and the dynamism of plants as they conduct their annual performance, flowing and ebbing with the seasons. The form and structure of plants in winter grounds our projects, with the softer planting bringing those much wanted seasonal highlights.
Dean established his horticultural practice in 2013. Dean has also since launched the renowned Northern School of Gardening to share his love of all things gardens, and the fine gardening and outdoor paraphernalia online retail brand, Urban Grow.
Our work
Established in 2013, the practice, based in Harrogate, is formed of a dedicated team of professionals who lovingly deliver exciting commissions in locations as varied as France, Malta and all around the UK. Projects range from urban gardens to country estates. New places, people and challenges excite us. We also enjoy working with contractors, architects, and local authorities on residential and commercial projects too.
Our services cover:
Garden design and build
Horticultural management
Soft planting and garden landscaping across all sectors
Consultancy and learning
We endeavour to source local materials, work with trusted experts and create and manage outdoor living spaces that clients can’t wait to spend time enjoying.
Dean’s first love of horticulture and plants inform not only the design journey our team embark upon with our clients, but also comes through in the way we manage existing gardens and landscapes too.
Our Philosophy
We create timeless gardens which forge a connection between places and people.
Our contacts within the world of horticulture here in the UK and abroad keeps the team up to date with the horticultural zeitgeist, allowing us to translate these ideas and trends into your garden.
We value local materials and want the users of our gardens to connect with nature. We create gardens that heal, nurture and are a place for entertaining.
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Garden Design & Build
When it comes to building and installing your design, our experienced team will manage the process from start to finish, calling on our trusted network of contractors and suppliers to ensure every detail of the design in executed to the highest standard.
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Horticultural Management
Experienced, professionally trained plants-people who imagine, create and care for beautiful gardens. Our clients work with us because they want to live in their gardens and have their gardens compliment their properties.
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Consultancy & Learning
Whether you’ve recently moved and would like help identifying plant species in your garden, want to discuss ideas for your garden in advance of a re-design, or would just like some hands-on help learning how to care and maintain your garden, we can help.