Andrew originally trained as a horticulturist and founded the company in 1991. He is especially known for the planting design of residential gardens in the UK and public space commissions that include advising on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and designing landscapes and gardens for the Royal Borough of Greenwich and the St Vincent National Trust. He has also been commissioned internationally designing gardens and planting across Europe, Caribbean, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.

Andrew is a Chartered Horticulturist and a Fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Horticulture and the Society of Garden Designers, the UK’s professional bodies for horticulture and design. He is Patron of Veterans’ Growth, a charity that supports veterans through horticulture based in West Sussex; and he is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Gardeners in the City of London.

Over the past 30 years Andrew has contributed to the profession through teaching and is a founding director of the internationally renowned London College of Garden Design in London and Melbourne where he has mentored some of the most exciting new designers coming out of the UK and Australia over the past 20 years. The unique planting design programme that Andrew created here champions innovative planting design in new landscapes. He also teaches planting design to Diploma students at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the Royal Horticultural Society, Wisley Garden and has lectured for institutions such as the Smithsonian in Washington DC and at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.

Andrew’s book ‘The New Professional Planting Designer’ will be published in 2025 by Rizzoli New York.