MEET THE

Trudi Entwistle

Trudi is a senior lecturer in Landscape Architecture at Leeds Metropolitan University. She is also a site-specific artist. Her artwork lies somewhere between land art, sculpture and design, and she has produced installations throughout the UK as well as internationally, especially in the Far East. Through teaching, research and art, Trudi is interested in how sculptural forms integrate with their surroundings and interact with human movement.

Richard Sneesby

Richard is a landscape architect, garden designer, and award leader of a degree course on Garden Design at University College Falmouth. He has presented a number of TV series, was co-author of The Garden Maker’s
Manual and wrote the ‘how to design’ sections of the RHS Encyclopedia of Garden Design. He runs a landscape and garden design practice, has won a number of design awards, and been an external examiner and assessor at
home and abroad.

Arabella St John Parker

Arabella is Houses & Gardens Editor for Homes & Gardens magazine and has enjoyed gardening since childhood, when her father set aside patches of garden for her and her siblings to cultivate as they wished. Arabella chose to grow an unusual combination of carrots and cornflowers, carefully sown in neat rows. Today she enjoys visiting other people’s gardens and, as a gardening editor, working with and learning from real experts in the gardening world.

Bill Burford

Bill is a lecturer, landscape architect & garden designer with a passion for innovative concepts, well planned spaces design detailing & biodiversity based on a sound knowledge of environmental principles. Bill has designed and constructed a variety of public and private gardens, therapeutic landscapes & wetland habitats across the UK & abroad His current role as course leader for a degree course in Landscape Architecture at the University of Gloucestershire.

Charles Rutherfoord

Charles Rutherfoord MSGD is the Chair of the SGD. He is a garden and architectural designer with degrees in Architecture and History of Architecture from Cambridge and in Interiors from Kingston University. The gardens he creates show off his spatial awareness, passion for colour and plantsmanship, and his signature style – a dramatic use of colour and texture throughout the seasons.