WHY PRIVATE GARDENS MATTER
Your garden is part
of something bigger
One garden is small.
Thousands of gardens are a landscape.
A single garden may be small, but together private gardens form a vast living network. By rebuilding soil life, holding water in the landscape, creating shade, providing habitat and supporting biodiversity, they can help regenerate the wider landscape.
WHY WE NEED YOUR GARDEN TOO
01 BEAUTY ROOTED IN LIFE
The most beautiful gardens are often the most alive: rich in diversity, texture, colour, scent and movement. Designing for biodiversity naturally leads to regenerative gardens that grow richer over time while asking for less control.
02 A BETTER GARDEN.
A MORE VALUABLE HOME.
A thriving garden improves daily life with shade, beauty and spaces you truly want to spend time in. A thoughtfully designed landscape can also increase the desirability and value of your home.
03 FIND HOPE IN YOUR GARDEN
Working with a living garden turns concern into action. It builds knowledge, connection and the confidence that positive change can begin right outside your door.
04 PASS ON MORE
THAN A GARDEN
A garden can pass on more than plants. It can give the next generation a closer relationship with nature, and the knowledge, curiosity and care to look after it.
SELECTED WORK
From first sketch to living landscape.
01 CARVALHAL
Garden Design & Implementation · Troviscais, Portugal
02 MONTE NOVO
03 TERRA MIA
Garden Design · Luzianes-Gare, Portugal
Garden Design · São Luís, Portugal
PLANS & SKETCHES
Hope becomes much easier
to believe in when you can
watch it grow.
A garden gives us somewhere to turn intention into action: a place to learn, to care for and watch positive change take root.
ABOUT FIND ME IN THE GARDEN
I believe gardens can be places of beauty, resilience and hope.
I started FIND ME IN THE GARDEN because I don’t believe we should have to choose between beauty and regeneration. A garden can be both beautifully designed and ecologically rich, supporting biodiversity, responsive to its place and thriving over time.
For the past ten years, I’ve lived in southern Portugal with my wife and our four children. Living close to the land, through heat, drought and unpredictable seasons, has changed the way I see gardens. It has taught me to work with a site rather than trying to control it: observing what wants to grow, what the land can support and how beauty can emerge from that relationship.