Garden design projects in Surrey

The gardens on this page were designed by Paul Studholme of The Plant Hunter, a plant-led garden designer based in East Horsley, Surrey. They range from the restoration of the two-acre Medicine Garden in Cobham to private planting schemes across Cobham, Weybridge, Westhumble and the Horsley villages, and a commercial living wall in Twickenham. Each project page shows the garden itself, the plants that made it, and where possible how it has matured since.

Who this is for: anyone weighing up a garden designer in Surrey who wants to judge finished gardens, a few seasons on, rather than drawings.

A drawing shows what a designer intends. A garden a few seasons on shows whether the planting was right. The projects here are presented that way: the situation the garden started from, the planting chosen for its conditions, and how it has settled since.

  • Small town garden in Cobham with layered planting softening slatted screens and raised beds, designed by Paul Studholme

    Small town garden in Cobham

    A compact garden where structural planting makes the space read larger than it is.

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  • Mature Olea europaea in a raised brick bed beside the terrace in a Cobham garden designed by The Plant Hunter

    Harebell Hill, Cobham

    A newly built garden left without planting, given a white, blue, purple and pink scheme worked through grasses and olives on sandy loam over clay.

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  • Fytotextile living wall of Heuchera, Carex, Erigeron, Ajuga and ivy on the former gun emplacement at Radnor Gardens Cafe, Twickenham

    Radnor Gardens Cafe, Twickenham

    A 30 sq m Fytotextile living wall installed in 2021 at a community cafe on the Thames, in a high-footfall public setting.

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  • Paved social area with a long table beside the pool in a family garden in Weybridge designed by Paul Studholme

    Family garden, Weybridge

    A social area around the pool, hedged garden rooms and structural planting built around multi-stem birch, on fast-draining sandy soil.

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