Right from start, when the garden was just conceptual ideas, I wanted to make it as sustainable as possible. To do this, I thoroughly researched suppliers, considering the materials and their carbon footprint as well as considering using alternative construction techniques. Every design decision has been based around the need for the garden to be […]
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Chelsea 2023, Garden Designer Cornwall, Garden Designer Devon, Jilayne Rickards
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PROJECT GIVING BACK Project Giving Back is the vision of two private individuals who want to support a wide range of charitable causes whose work suffered during the global Covid-19 pandemic and continues to be affected by the economic downturn and cost-of-living crisis. The grant-making scheme gives UK-based charities and other charitable organisations the chance […]
JILAYNE RICKARDS – DESIGNER Jilayne is a professional multi award winning garden designer based in Cornwall, UK. With sustainability driving every design decision, her gardens reflect the encouraging movement towards reducing our environmental impact. Often influencing clients and along the way, she carefully sources products by their carbon footprint, uses sustainable construction techniques and plants […]
Chelsea 2023, Garden Designer Cornwall, Garden Designer Devon, Jilayne Rickards
How I came across fauna and flora international
We can all feel helpless when we see the destruction human kind has done to this planet, but we have to be positive and find ways to make a difference. I have been looking for a way to make my own difference and whilst in conversation with my zoologist friend he asked if I had […]
Having lived in London for nearly 40 years, I have decided to return to my first love – Cornwall. London has given me so much to be grateful for : a career, a family, fabulous friends, but the call of the wild is strong and I feel the irresistible pull of the countryside, rugged landscape, […]
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