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Andy Sturgeon | |
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| Born | 1965or1966(age 58–59) [1] |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | garden designer |
| Partner | Sarah Didinal (died 2009) |
| Children | 3 sons |
Andy Sturgeon (born 1965/1966) is a British landscape and garden designer, author, journalist, broadcaster and commentator in the international garden design sector.
Before graduating from the Welsh College of Horticulture in 1987, [2] Sturgeon worked at the Royal Horticultural Society Garden Wisley, and as a landscape gardener.
He has been included in lists of the United Kingdom's top ten garden designers by The Sunday Times and House & Garden magazine. [3] He has won numerous awards at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, including nine gold medals and three best in show awards. His Roof Terrace Gardens at Battersea Power Station won the Grand Award in both the 2023 BALI Awards and 2024 Society of Garden Design Awards. In 2011, Sturgeon was made a Fellow of the UK Society of Garden Designers. [4]
His commissions include large country estates, public spaces and rooftop gardens throughout the United Kingdom. He has worked on projects in Asia, Russia, Europe and the Middle East. Some examples of his works include a show garden that he designed for South Korea's first garden festival - the Suncheon Bay Garden Expo, [5] a garden for Great Ormond Street Hospital [6] and a rooftop garden for Axtell House in Soho. [7]
He is a published author, journalist and broadcaster and a commentator in the international garden design sector. He presents the BBC's annual coverage of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. [8]
He has published several books including Planted, Potted on indoor plants, and most recently Big Plans, Small Gardens. [9]
Sturgeon lives in Brighton, and has three sons with his partner Sarah Didinal, who died suddenly in summer 2009, aged 37. [10] [1]
He has travelled extensively to observe gardens and plants in their natural habitats, including a plant hunt in Madagascar and a seed-collecting expedition in Kenya for the Millennium Seed Bank. [11]
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), founded in 1804 as the Horticultural Society of London, is the UK's leading gardening charity.
The RHS Chelsea Flower Show, formally known as the Great Spring Show, is a garden show held for five days in May by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea in Chelsea, London. Held at Chelsea since 1912, the show is attended by members of the British royal family.
Diarmuid Gavin is an Irish garden designer and television personality. He has presented gardens at the Chelsea Flower Show on nine occasions from 1995 to 2016, winning a number of medals, including gold in 2011. He has also authored or co-authored at least ten gardening-related books.
RHS Flower Show Tatton Park held at Tatton Park, near Knutsford, Cheshire, first began in 1999 by the Royal Horticultural Society. The show houses the RHS National Flower Bed Competition, Young Designer of the Year Award and a wide range of inspirational show gardens, smaller 'Back to Back' gardens, visionary gardens and a number of marquees displaying prize plants and flora exhibits. Other key features of the show are the floral marquee and plant plaza, the arts and heritage pavilion, and the floral design studio.
Sir Terence Orby Conran was a British designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer. He founded the Design Museum in Shad Thames, London in 1989. The British designer Thomas Heatherwick said that Conran "moved Britain forward to make it an influence around the world." Edward Barber, from the British design team Barber & Osgerby, described Conran as "the most passionate man in Britain when it comes to design, and his central idea has always been 'Design is there to improve your life.'" The satirist Craig Brown once joked that before Conran "there were no chairs and no France."
Jasper Alexander Thirlby Conran is a British designer. He has worked on collections of womenswear and for the home, as well as productions for the stage in ballet, opera and theatre.
Joseph Samuel Swift is an English garden designer, journalist and television presenter.
James Alexander L. S. Wong is a British ethnobotanist, television presenter and garden designer. He is best known for presenting the award-winning series Grow Your Own Drugs and the BBC and PBS series Secrets of Your Food, as well as being a panelist on the Radio 4 series Gardeners' Question Time.
Paul Hervey-Brookes is an multi-award-winning garden designer and plantsman who no longer lives in the Cotswolds, England He lives alone in the Loire Valley in France.
Orla Kiely, OBE is an Irish fashion designer based in London. She began her career designing hats, and moved on to design work on handbags and a variety of other items including kitchenware and cars. She received a master's degree from the Royal College of Art. She worked with several companies before setting up her own business.
Arabella Lennox-Boyd, Lady Lennox-Boyd is an Italian-born English garden designer.
David Martin Domoney, C Hort. FCI Hort is an English Chartered Horticulturist and celebrity gardener. He co-presents the TV gardening programme Love Your Garden, alongside Alan Titchmarsh, and is the resident gardener on ITV1's This Morning.
Noel Kingsbury is a British garden designer and writer on gardening, plant sciences and related topics. He is best known for his promotion of naturalistic planting design in gardens and designed landscapes, and his collaboration with Dutch garden and landscape designer Piet Oudolf on books on planting design. He writes occasionally for The Daily Telegraph, Gardens Illustrated magazine and The Garden - the membership magazine of the Royal Horticultural Society. He has worked with Nigel Dunnett of the University of Sheffield on the first book in English on green roof and related 'green architecture' technologies. In collaboration with Tim Richardson Kingsbury has edited Vista, the Culture and Politics of Gardens and co-chairs events at the Garden Museum in London under the title 'Vista'. He has worked with several notable garden photographers, such as Marianne Majerus and Andrea Jones.
Plantify.co.uk is an online plant shop based in Windsor, Berkshire (UK) that sells a wide variety of herbaceous and perennial plants. The plant shop supplies over 3150 plants sourced from small British growers and hosts a Plant Finder encyclopedia and free garden design tool.
Dan Pearson is an English landscape designer, specialising in naturalistic perennial planting.
Matthew Wilson is a garden designer, writer, radio and television broadcaster and lecturer. He is a regular participant on Gardener's Question Time on BBC Radio 4.
John Andrew Brookes, MBE was a garden and landscape designer. He started designing gardens and landscapes in the late 1950s and designed thousands of gardens. He also taught and lectured about horticulture, landscape and interior design.
Cleve West is a multi award-winning garden designer who is based in Hampton Wick, Richmond upon Thames. He began designing in 1990 and has won six RHS gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show. He won "Best in Show" and gold medal at both the 2011 and the 2012 Chelsea Flower Shows. He is one part of Three Men Went to Mow who have made thirty YouTube films on gardening subjects.
Nick Bailey is a freelance horticulturalist, author, UK television gardening presenter and garden designer. He is a former Head Gardener at The Wicken. In 2010, he became Head Gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden.
Sarah Eberle is an English garden designer.
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