Ann-Marie is a multi-award winning garden designer, television presenter, journalist and author, who divides her time between designing innovative gardens for private clients, companies and charities, and enthusing people about gardening through her books, television appearances and articles in national newspapers and magazines.
THE STUDIO: ANN-MARIE POWELL GARDENS
Ann-Marie Powell started her innovative, energetic, and award-winning garden design practice in 1998, and has built an impressive portfolio of gardens designed to combine the best of contemporary design with innovative use of materials in a naturalist style.
Her portfolio includes
- Private and commercial gardens (including Grade 1 and 2 listed)
- Roof terraces and public spaces
- Hotels, spas and private school gardens and grounds
- Gold medal-winning show gardens at RHS Chelsea
- Hospices, community gardens and development projects.
She designs all her gardens with her team in their studio near the South Downs on the West Sussex/Hampshire border, where they are constantly inspired by the surrounding, ever-changing landscape.
To discuss your gardening project or landscape design requirements, call Ann-Marie Powell Gardens on
+44 (0) 1730 825650
Talks
Should you require a guest speaker, Ann-Marie is available to give talks to interested groups, at conferences, seminars, workshops and at gardening events and shows, as well as online for your podcast, Zoomcast or InstaTV show.
Talk with Q&A
Duration: 90 minutes
Cost: From £1,200 including VAT plus expenses
Talks can be tailored to your particular requirements
If you are interested in this service, please call us on +44 (0) 1730 825650
Or email us at info@ann-mariepowell.com
About Ann-Marie Powell
Listed as one of the Top 50 Landscape and Garden Designers for five years in a row by House and Gardens, Ann-Marie and her studio have won a host of Awards.
2024
- Main Avenue Show Garden at RHS Chelsea 2024 Silver Gilt, Children’s Choice Award and BBC’s People’s Choice Award for The Octavia Hill Garden by Blue Diamond with the National Trust
- House and Garden Top 50 Garden Designers in 2024
- Recognised as one of the top advisors in home & design category in the 2024 Spears Index, compiled by Spears Magazine
2023
- House and Garden Top 50 Garden Designers in 2023
- Ann-Marie was named one of Gardens Illustrated most inspiring female garden designers in British history
- Hort Week’s 100+ Leading Women in Horticulture 2023
2022
- The Society of Garden Designers Award for UK Commercial or Community Landscapes & Gardens 2022 for RHS Wisley World Food Garden
- The Society of Garden Designers People’s Choice Award 2022 for RHS Wisley World Food Garden
- Three Environmental and Planting Awards at the world’s longest running flower show in Philadelphia USA in 2022
- Five Stars for our Gaze Burvill display at RHS Chelsea 2022 for the second year in a row
- Ann-Marie Powell was made a Fellow of the Society of Garden Designers in recognition of her contribution to our profession
- Pro-Landscaper’s Top 25 Most Influential People in Horticulture
- One of Country and Town House’s Top 20 Gardeners and Landscape Designers in 2023
2021
- Society of Garden Designers Best International or UK Commercial Landscape or Garden Award 2021 for the Cottonmill Spa Garden at Sopwell House hotel.
- Society of Garden Designers Best Hardscape Design Award 2021 for their Cottonmill Spa Garden at Sopwell House hotel.
- Gaze Burvill at RHS Chelsea 2021 awarded Five Stars, Best Trade Stand and Director General’s Award
Older
- Countryfile’s 30th Anniversary Garden for BBC Countryfile and The Royal Horticultural Society (2018)
- Her work at children’s hospice Chestnut Tree House was the winner of the Society of Garden Designers Healing or Learning Garden (2017)
- The Royal Horticultural Society ‘Greening Grey Britain’ Garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show (2016)
- RHS Hampton Court Gold for Macmillan Cancer Support (2015)
- RHS Chelsea Gold for Green and Black’s (2010)
- Silver Flora Medallist for The British Heart Foundation in association with Brewin Dolphin Investments (2011)
Ann-Marie Powell is a Society of Garden Designers and Landscape Institute Awards judge, and a Judge and Garden Selection Panel member for the Royal Horticultural Society Flower Shows.
Even if you’ve never met Ann-Marie, you’ll probably recognise her from numerous TV appearances on major UK channels, including BBC TV coverage of the Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show alongside fellow presenters such as Alan Titchmarsh, Monty Don, and Carol Klein.
She has also appeared on many makeover gardening shows, using her experience and expertise to overcome problems and creating innovative and affordable design solutions.
BBC1 — Garden SOS, Chelsea Flower Show and Hampton Court coverage
BBC2 — The Great Chelsea Garden Challenge, RHS Chelsea Flower Show coverage
ITV — This Morning, Sky High, House of Horrors, Grass Roots, The Alan Titchmarsh Show
Channel 4 — Garden Doctors, Lost Gardens, Real Gardens, Gardener’s Gardens, The Great Garden Challenge
UK Style and UKTV Gardens — Take Three Gardeners, Garden Rivals, A Garden for All Seasons, Garden Challenge, Our House
If you would like Ann-Marie to front a new TV garden show, be a guest presenter, a radio show guest, or even appear on your gardening podcast, give her a call to discuss your project.
Ann-Marie has written no less than five informative and inspiring books published in the UK, USA and Europe. These books draw on her real-life experiences with trowel and spade, and her own love of unusual materials and hard landscape design.
Ann Marie-Powell’s Plans for Small Gardens (2012)
As a respected and well-known garden designer and garden expert, Ann-Marie’s articles have featured in national and international publications as diverse as The English Garden, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Financial Times, Prima, The Times, The Glasgow Herald, Elle Decoration, House Beautiful and Gardens Illustrated. Her natural wit combined with down to earth advice and ‘can do’ style is much in demand by editors and readers alike.
If you would like Ann-Marie to pen an article for your newspaper, magazine, expert blog, catalogue or brochure, please do get in contact.
Since 2010, Ann-Marie has written a blog covering all aspects of her gardening career and skills, from teaching kids to plant seeds to places and buildings that have inspired her. You can read the latest installment here.
During the pandemic lockdown in spring 2020, Ann-Marie created My Real Garden on Instagram, a live show where she inspires and shares her real garden and those of her many devoted followers, both here and abroad. After 100 daily episodes, the Instagram TV show has matured into a weekly live event for her 28,000+ followers and counting. Join in the fun and banter on Instagram at @myrealgarden
Ann-Marie is also extremely proud, honoured and delighted to have been asked in 2016 to become a patron of Greenfingers, a charity dedicated to supporting the children who use hospices around the UK, along with their families, by creating beautiful, well-designed outdoor spaces for children to enjoy with family, friends and siblings. Discover more at www.greenfingerscharity.org.uk
For genuine reviews, feedback and comments from a diverse range of very satisfied clients, see our Testimonials page.
To book Ann-Marie
To book Ann-Marie for any event, book signing, garden show, lecture or TV show:
Call: +44 (0) 1730 825650
Email: info@ann-mariepowell.com
