Arabella Lennox-Boyd was born and raised in
Rome but subsequently settled in England and has been a Landscape Designer for the past thirty years. She studied Landscape Architecture at Greenwich University
and in 2003 was awarded an Honorary Doctorate for her outstanding contribution to Landscape Design and Architecture. She has a thriving practice in central London
and has undertaken over the years, well over 400 commissions, ranging from small town gardens to large, historical, formal country landscapes.
Projects in
the UK include The National Trust Gardens at Ascott House and Sheringham Hall, a roof garden for Number One Poultry, a well-known commercial building in the City
of London, for which she has won numerous awards and the gardens at Eaton Hall, Cheshire amongst many others. She has also designed no fewer than five Gold Medal
winning gardens at the Chelsea Flower Show, London, including Best Garden Award in 1998 and with her Team has taken part in many competitions.
Overseas, she
has worked in France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, Texas, Mexico, Barbados, Canada and the USA, giving her and her team of designers a
unique expertise across all climate zones.
Arabella Lennox-Boyd’s public appointments in landscape and horticulture are numerous: she served as a
Trustee of Kew Gardens for nine years and was a member of The Historic Parks and Gardens Panel of English Heritage. Currently, she is a Trustee of Castle Howard
Arboretum Trust, a patron of both Painshill Park Trust and the Martin McLaren Horticultural Scholarship and a member of the Royal Horticultural Society’s
Floral B Committee. In addition, she has given lectures on her work in the UK,France, Italy and the USA.
She has also written three books: Traditional
English Gardens (1989); PrivateGardens of London (1993); and in May 2002 Designing Gardens.
