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Phylip Statner (Head Gardener)
Don't forget to visit our "Gardener's Blog" section of the website, with commentary from Phylip Statner on the seasonal highlights in the garden.
Angela Collins Angela Collins has been designing gardens for the last 15 years and has worked on nearly a hundred projects in all types of different gardens, mainly large country gardens. She specialises in planting pots and has done so at Cottesbrooke and these can be viewed during the summer months. She also designed the Herb garden and Dutch garden. James Alexander Sinclair James Alexander Sinclair is a garden designer, journalist and broadcaster known for his wit, energy and flair. He mostly specialises in designing large country gardens which he then brings to life on the page with his irreverent and entertaining style in a number of newspapers and journals. He has monthly columns in both Gardeners World Magazine and The English Garden and he has won the Garden Media Guild Blog of the Year Award for two years in succession.. At Cottesbrooke he designed the Terrace Borders. Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe (1900 - 1996) He was commissioned by the late Lady Macdonald-Buchanan soon after her arrival at Cottesbrooke. An English landscape architect, garden designer and author, with very eclectic tastes. Recognised as the leading figure of his profession in England throughout much of the 20th century. He trained as an architect at the Architectural Association School and became increasingly interested in Italian Renaissance gardens, the subject on which his first book was published. This influence gave many of his early designs formal layouts with strong axis, which can be clearly seen in the Forecourt at Cottesbrooke. The additions of statues, and later verticals of the new herbaceous planting adds baroque character, which we hope he would have approved. Dame Sylvia Crowe (1901 - 1997) English garden designer, landscape architect and author. Her first words from her book Garden Design 1958 are 'Gardens are the link between men and the world in which they live'. This book remains of great value, where she explores this fundamental theme. Her beautifully proportioned shelter in the pool garden looks over a shallow terrace, through what are known as the dog gates into the wilder edges of the formal gardens. She was president of the landscape institute from 1957 to 1959 and helped found the International Federation of Landscape Architects. She worked on landscaping new towns at Basildon and at Harlow with Sir Frank Gibbard, and was also credited with landscaping the setting at Trawsfynydd nuclear power station in Snowdonia. | ||
Phylip joined Cottesbrooke's award winning gardens in October 2007. Having studied Horticulture at Askham Bryan College, Phylip has acquired a rich experience working for prestigious private residences and large Estates from Aberdeenshire to London. He has travelled widely, exploring the plants and gardens through Asia, and worked for several months at Kirstenbosch Botanic Garden in Cape Town, South Africa - a Botanic garden which comprises solely of the country's indigenous flora.
