Anna
I work at the intersection of land, beauty and intention; bringing twenty-five years of hands-on growing, garden design and land consultancy to bear on projects of every scale. From a wedding bucket of flowers cut that morning, to a multi-acre estate brief years in the making, I bring the same thing every time: a search for meaning, a strong artistic sensibility, and an ability to hold many voices and find the solution that sings to all of them.
I work with the whole and its connections, understanding that soil, plants, people and place are not separate things but elements of a living system. This informs everything: how I grow, how I garden, how I design, how I teach. My practice is regenerative in the deepest sense: always working to strengthen the whole, to leave things more alive than I found them, to ensure that no element and no one, is left behind.
Garden Design & Land Consultancy
I design and build gardens from intimate city plots to multi-acre estates across south and east England, and work with individuals, families and organisations to think through how they use their land, with more intention, more creativity and more coherence. I trained hands-on, working alongside exceptional gardeners and landscape architects, before building my own practice. I understand both the poetry and the practicalities, whether the brief is a single garden or a multi-acre site with a dozen stakeholders.
Growing & Flowers
Anna’s Flower Farm has been rooted here in Audley End Village, Saffron Walden, for ten years, growing naturally, without chemicals, for the soil and the pollinators as much as for the stems. I sell flowers in buckets for arranging, put together wedding flowers, and arrange for events and art institutions. The farm is also where I write, host and teach.
Teaching
Sharing knowledge has always been central to my practice. I run cut flower growing courses, one-to-one floristry sessions and workshops at art institutions, farms and community spaces across the country. I wrote the UK’s first floriculture course, combining horticulture, agroecology and floristry, for Capel Manor College, and trialling it in person at Forty Hall Farm, an organic farm in North London. I speak regularly at industry events and have collaborated with a wide range of institutions, estates and organisations whose work I believe in.
My work spans garden design, flower farming, agroecology and land consultancy, not because I couldn’t choose, but because the thread running through all of it is the same: connection. People to place, brief to beauty, intention to outcome.
I’m based on the Cambridge/Essex border, outside Saffron Walden, and work across northwest Essex, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and London.
Growing, making and designing with intention; in trust with the land, the seasons, and ourselves.
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