Creating beautiful spaces for discerning
clients
“Garden design is a natural evolution
of my love of plants and in-depth knowledge of gardening, stemming from childhood
and developing through nearly 10 years professional experience.
Beginning my career with a couple
of small contractors, I was quickly appointed Head of Gardens at Anthony de
Grey Gardens in London, responsible for all aspects of the installation of
new gardens and the maintenance of existing ones, ranging from developing
planting schemes to supervising hardscaping contractors on site. Many of these
gardens are now fully mature and when
the opportunity arises to visit them, it is always fascinating to see the
"picture in my head" realised.
Design work began from trying to
make the highly-decorative, two-dimensional plans of many designers a three-dimensional
reality. All too frequently paper plans would in fact, be ergonomically unsound,
ignore either soil conditions or aspect and planting schemes "safe"
- dare I say boring.
My experience of working in London
obviously gave me much experience of creating seasonal, long-term or purely
decorative, containerised planting. I was lucky to have a wide variety of
corporate and private clients ensuring that my imagination was always stretched
to come up with innovative ideas, ensuring that nothing I touched ever resembled
a pub window box!
In 1996, following my first Chelsea,
I went freelance and haven't looked back since!
Pianti Donna was conceived as a
vehicle to cover my work as a plantswoman, artist and designer.
On
the following pages you will find a small selection of my work, from a simple
window box to a slice of Tuscan hillside.
Just click on the links to view or email.”
Julie – August 2001
Based
in Buckinghamshire, but working for most of her career in Central London and
Tuscany, Italy.
RHS
Chelsea Flower Show 2000 medal winning designer with Steph Hunter
of the Courtyard Garden “Dream Catcher”.
Also working with Newington Nurseries on their Gold Medal winning
displays in 1999 and 2000.
Co-designer and Plantswoman for Anthony
de Grey Trellises, at Hampton Court 1994, 1995, 1996 and their display on
Main Avenue at Chelsea in 1996
All
images on this site are © Julie Slatter
Pianti Donna 2009
RHS Shows
