Garden designer, Catherine FitzGerald, and landscape architect, Mark Lutyens head a small practice which specialises in designing new gardens and restoring historic ones, in Britain and Ireland. Larger projects include gardens at Hillsborough Castle and at Glenarm Castle in Northern Ireland and the terrace of a classical Oxfordshire mansion by creating a naturalistic dry gravel garden.

Most recently, works in progress include new gardens at Ballyfin demesne in the Irish Midlands, the blending of an ecologically designed retreat in the Scottish Highlands with the surrounding landscape and a flower and fruit garden in the Tyrol in Austria. Catherine has spent many years developing the gardens at Glin Castle, Co. Limerick, as well as at her own home in Wiltshire, a restored brewery house. Mark gardens wildly on Exmoor.

With a practice that responds keenly to ‘spirit of place’ and seeks to blur the boundaries with what lies beyond, their planting style embraces both naturalism with an exuberant romance, anchored within a bold structure. ‘It's always a dance with nature” says Catherine.