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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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Why some gardens feel calm (and others don’t)
Why some gardens feel calm (and others don’t)
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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Bo Cook Landscape & Garden Design
3 Berkeley Row,
Lewes, England, BN7 1EU,
United Kingdom
07900416679 studio@bocook.co.uk
Hours
Mon 09:00 - 5:00
Tue 09:00 - 5:00
Wed 09:00 - 5:00
Thu 09:00 - 5:00
Fri 09:00 - 5:00
Sat Closed
Sun Closed

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

Gardens can be really fun places and designing this for a young family was a joyful experience. Yes, it has a bath on the terrace, two paths that run through the planting, a den, a space for growing, a wildlife pond and a covered area for hammocks an We are updating our website, so pop along and check out what we have been up to! . . . #gardendesignersussex #gardeninspiration #plantingdesign #contemporarygarden #moderngardendesign #sustainablegardening #ecologicaldesign #gardenreveal #completedga Beautifully constructed city garden for a professional couple. It was a very shady, underused garden, which we carefully transformed, giving consideration to the architecture of the modern extension and maximising the use of space by creating three Yup, this is a front garden! How lovely to pass this en route to the front door. A kitchen garden leads to this wildlife pond and bordered by native meadow, it really is a joyful arrival. Designed for a family who are passionate about growing, are e A recent photo of our client's garden sent to us by their gardener Julia, who beautifully manages a few of our client's gardens for us. She also sent through a photo from the summer, hightlighting all the colours! Our client is hugely happy with his Busy working on multiple designs this month. We can't post until everything is presented. So, here is some autumn colour from the garden instead! . . . #autumngarden #seasonalplanting #gardendesign #plantingdesign #ecologicalgardens #gardeninspirati Quince (Cydonia oblonga) . It looks a bit like a lumpy apple or pear, but it has a history that goes way deeper. People were cultivating quince in Mesopotamia as far back as 4000 to 5000 BC, and the ancient Greeks called them “golden apples.&rd My kitchen garden is up and running! We only completed the build 8 weeks ago. What a difference a few weeks can make. I feel so lucky, to have been able to start establishing this at my new house! Still haven’t unpacked but the veggies are in! Plant of the Month! Itea ilicifolia Evergreen and architectural, the holly‑leaved sweetspire earns its moment in late summer when 30 cm tassels of pale‑green, honey‑scented flowers cascade from glossy, holly‑like foliage. Native to western China, it Retaining ornamental seedheads, such as Echinacea cones, Allium umbels and Miscanthus plumes, extends a planting’s value well beyond flowering. Architecturally, their vertical and spherical forms give winter structure and capture rime or snow f When the weather is warm the Heatherwick Studio’s kinetic Glasshouse @woolbeding.gardens.nt opens its ten steel‑and‑glass sepals in four minutes, expanding a jewel‑like pyramid into a 141 m² crown. Inside, a rare Aralia vietnamensis shades Re-using materials from site: Such beautiful, old, thick york stone and weathered bricks. A gentle clean is all these need before they get to grace a new terrace soon to be built around the sensitively remodelled historic property. Carefully lifted a