Gardens I've designed
From courtyards to larger Yorkshire plots, each one shaped entirely around the people who live in it.
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Every garden starts with a conversation
No two gardens here are the same, because no two clients are the same. Each project began with listening: to what the homeowner wanted, what the site needed, and what would actually work in the long term. The result is a collection of gardens that are beautiful, manageable, and quietly full of life.
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A small City garden
York Year round interest. SilverA back garden behind a town house in York with distinctly different areas within it, dispite it being a small space. Near the house is a seating area for eating and entertaining. The middle section gets the most sun so this was the ideal spot to put some herbaceous planting with a little 'nook' for breakfast before leading up the wide shallow steps to the lawn area.
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Naturalistic borders with year-round interest
Harrogate Wildlife GoldLoose, naturalistic planting that changes week by week and doesn't need fussing over. The bees found it before the first summer was out.
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A cottage garden redesign
Wetherby Traditional SilverA much-loved cottage garden that had drifted out of balance over the years. I kept the roses, rebuilt the structure beneath them, and gave it back its calm.
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Deep herbaceous borders
Harrogate Low Maintenance SilverGenerous borders planted for colour from spring to the first frosts, designed so a couple of hours a month keeps them at their best.
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Elizabethan inspired garden.
York Show Garden adjacent to the Shakespeare Rose Theatre . GoldThis is a 'pop up' Elizabethan garden which showcased popular plants known by Shakespeare, many of which are mentioned in his plays. It was located next to the Shakespeare Rose Theatre , a full sized reproduction of the Globe Theatre London, which 'popped up' next to Clifford's Tower in the summers of 2018 and 2019 to delight the people of York with 8 of Shakespeare's most popular plays.
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A wildflower meadow garden
Knaresborough Wildlife GoldA lawn given over to meadow, cut twice a year and alive with insects all summer. One of the simplest changes a garden can make, and one of the best.
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Stone terrace and mixed borders
Leeds Low Maintenance BronzeA crisp stone terrace with planting chosen to look after itself. Somewhere to sit with a coffee that doesn't add jobs to the weekend.
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A country garden with views
Ripon Traditional SilverA garden that borrows its view. The design keeps the foreground quiet so the countryside beyond does the talking.
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A kitchen garden and perennial borders
Wetherby Kitchen Garden SilverRaised oak beds sized so nothing's out of reach, with perennial borders keeping the productive end of the garden as pretty as the rest.
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A town garden, room by room
York City Garden GoldA long, narrow plot behind a period terrace, divided into rooms for dining, growing and sitting in the sun. Seen from above, you can read the whole design at once.
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A wildlife pond and dry stone wall
Skipton Wildlife SilverA curving dry stone wall shelters a pond edged with cobbles and marginal planting. Built from local stone, and adopted by dragonflies almost immediately.
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A walled garden for eating outside
Leeds Traditional SilverA sun-trap terrace held inside old brick walls, with borders that reach their peak just as the table gets the most use in high summer.
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A beautiful garden should fit your life. And if it can quietly give something back to the world around it, all the better.
Sally Tierney
What my clients say
We'd been putting the garden off for years. It felt overwhelming every time we walked outside. Sally listened properly. She didn't design what looked impressive on paper; she designed what would actually work for us.
I was worried that wanting a wildlife-friendly garden meant giving up any sense of order. Sally showed me that was never really true. We have bees, birds, and hedgehogs, and the garden still feels calm.
The consultation gave me more clarity than I'd expected, and the design followed naturally from there. The garden we have now is exactly what we needed.
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Every one of these gardens started with a conversation. If you're thinking about yours, I'd love to hear about it.
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