Naila Green Garden Design -A Brief History

Headed by Naila Green, the garden design practice, formed 20 years ago, includes a team of qualified garden designers and horticulturalists, working for private as well as corporate clients. We have produced residential garden designs for small to large gardens, and large landscape design schemes for, both, tourist-based concerns and for commercial organisations such as South West Water plc. We, routinely, work with architects, deal with Local Authority Planning requirements, Listed Buildings and TPOs (Tree Preservation Orders).

We have also designed and project-managed a large number of show gardens at regional and national RHS (Royal Horticultural Society) shows, including Chelsea and Hampton Court Flower Shows, for clients such as the BBC, General Motors and the RHS itself, and have merited an award for each one, including several gold awards. We are very proud that one of our designs for a large front garden and driveway was awarded a prestigious British Association of Landscape Industries (BALI) National Award.

Apart from providing seminars and lectures for the RHS, and for garden societies, Naila has also been an RHS show gardens judge and taught a variety of garden and planting design courses, including a Professional Garden Design course to Foundation Degree level. She has also designed and authored garden design and planting design courses, as well as, occasionally, writing articles for gardening magazines about garden design and about her own coastal garden, which has been widely featured in books, magazines, newspapers and on TV.

Personally, Naila is a keen gardener, and is passionate about plants, planting and gardens, a passion which provides the driving ethos for all the company's work.

Naila has featured in many garden magazines, both as the subject and the writer. Highover, her garden, on the clifftop at Dawlish, has also been featured in many articles and has a chapter all to itself in 'Gardens by the Sea', by Barbara Segall, which features gardens from all over the world. Because of the expertise she has gained at Highover, Naila also acts as a consultant to other designers on seaside planting.