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Bo Cook Landscape & Garden Design is a UK-based landscape and garden design practice creating ecological, site-responsive gardens shaped by instinct, intuition, and immersion. The studio works collaboratively with clients, architects, and specialist teams, using naturalistic planting and sustainable design principles to create calm, meaningful outdoor spaces designed to evolve over time.

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What should a planning-ready landscape strategy include?
What should a planning-ready landscape strategy include?
Bo CookMarch 17, 2026
Do I need the full garden design service?
Do I need the full garden design service?
Bo CookMarch 17, 2026
Do I need a Garden Designer or a Landscaper?
Do I need a Garden Designer or a Landscaper?
Bo CookMarch 17, 2026
Why some gardens feel calmer than others
Why some gardens feel calmer than others
Bo CookJanuary 13, 2026
Designing gardens intuitively — without losing clarity
Designing gardens intuitively — without losing clarity
Bo CookJanuary 13, 2026
What does ecological landscape and garden design mean in practice?
What does ecological landscape and garden design mean in practice?
Bo CookJanuary 13, 2026

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Website design and profile photography Katie Vandyck 2019
All other photography Bo Cook at Bo Cook Landscape & Garden Design 2024

Photos from a wonderfully wild and weather-beaten garden visit with the SGLD East Sussex cluster group, being talked through the design by Andy Sturgeon, high up on the South Downs.
The weather was biblical rain, mist, low cloud, the works, but someh Reseda luteola, commonly known as Weld or Dyers Weed in my garden competing against Digitalis and Verbena for height! 

Smothered in pollinators it also has an ethereal glow in low light. I’ll be encouraging this into my house borders for next We love receiving a message like this…

“A jar of flowers from our beautiful garden! We are still eternally grateful and we think of you often. We hope you are keeping well 🤗💕”

To be reminded that a garden we helped create conti A trade stand has to do a lot.

It has to welcome people, hold conversations, express values, support a message, guide movement, carry information, and in the case of the SGLD stand - still somehow feel like a garden.

Designing for the Society of Ga Well, funny how things go sometimes! This white plant became quite controversial on our trade stand! 

Campanula glomerata ‘alba’ was a sub for another campanula. A bit more bulky and stout, it hadn’t achieved its heady heights of 5 We just popped back to a client's garden for their annual consultation. Things are bedding in nicely and all is taking shape. As usual we have a few gaps, and some plants have done better than expected while others are sulking. So, some suggestions f Chelsea trade stands look beautifully calm and curated by the time the gates open.
Behind the scenes, it is something else entirely.
It is vans, tools, timing, nerves, lists, last-minute decisions, problem-solving, tired legs, broken backs, tiny deta We are absolutely delighted to share that our trade stand garden for the Society of Garden and Landscape Designers at Chelsea has been awarded 4 stars.
It has been a huge privilege to be part of this project, and we are so grateful to everyone who he Well! Here we are! 6am on a country platform next to a builders merchants with a bunch of wild flowers that has properly triggered my hayfever! 

Press Day #rhschelsea today! First day our @the_sgld installation will be open for scrutiny from the jud Concept vs reality! 

A few small changes along the way for @the_sgld installation, but we did good! Proud of this one! 

Thanks so much to @aplaceinthegarden @mobilaneglobal @_londonstone @evergreen_exterior_services and @thea_pitcher_outdoor_creati So close to finish! @the_sgld trade stand has been such fun to build. @eliza.gray.gardens @barringer_andy @vanessa_boal @aramintacadwalladerart and Freyja my daughter have been insanely busy. Ben and Warren from @landesignsltd were absolute stars&hel @eliza.gray.gardens and I have designed the @the_sgld trade stand at Chelsea this year. Smashed it today so planting tomorrow. Will ping up more pics when we have pretty planters to show off!.
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