About
Founded by Garth and Maddy in 2006, Bristol Garden Company has accumulated a loyal client base over the years.
Garth manages the maintenance and landscaping.
Maddy does the design - and looks after everything else behind the scenes.
We feel lucky to work with a team of talented, creative, and dedicated people who are as passionate and committed as we are to creating, restoring and maintaining beautiful grounds and gardens.
Garth : Partner
Garth cut his gardening teeth as a grounds maintenance operative for a large national company. He moved on to became a gardener for a Bristol based not-for profit organisation, providing gardening and landscaping services within deprived areas of the city.
In 2004 alongside his job, Garth studied Horticulture at Pershore College and started to think about doing it for himself. In 2006 with just a handful of clients on the books Garth set up Bristol Garden Company. In 2007 as their eldest son was born, Garth took the plunge and gave up employment to launch himself fully into the business of gardening.
Garth has grown Bristol Garden Company through his ability to connect with people, to give people his time and to give them the best solution for what they need. Garth is highly focussed, task driven and ambitious. He loves a project and is always onto the next thing - looking at ways of making things better for all.
Maddy : Partner
On leaving University with a BA in Design Management, Maddy started out in production and print buying.
She honed her project management, organisational and communication skills in the demanding, deadline-based and highly client-focussed field of advertising. Maddy has always loved art, graphic design, sculpture, architecture and the natural world and decided it was time to get back to her design roots. She retrained in Garden Design at Pershore College.
Maddy has natural empathy and a real ability to listen, consider and react. This results in a client focussed response and ultimately a design that is a unique solution to a space, as functional as it is beautiful Maddy is inspired by the positive impact outdoor space can have on mental and physical well-being and by the reaction of the senses to gardens and landscapes.
meet the team
All of the team are RHS trained or training
Will
Will joined us in 2009 as a part time gardener whilst studying for his RHS2.
Since then Will has grown with us and helped us grow - supporting, training and developing new team members over the years. Will is a very positive and creative human being with a forward thinking approach. He loves variety and challenges at work – his methodical, considered and positive approach is what makes him our landscaping expert.
George
George joined us as a part time gardener in February 2021. Trained to RHS2, George had been working in his own client gardens in and around Bristol.
George joined us full time in the summer of 2021 and has become an invaluable member of our team. George heads up our garden maintenance services. A natural problem-solver with a building surveyor background, George loves to do a job to the best of his ability.
Lizzie
Lizzie joined us in July 2022 after completing her RHS 2 - which she studied whilst volunteering and working in her own client gardens.
Lizzie has a great love for plants and nature, and a passion for maintaining outdoor spaces that are beneficial to wildlife and to the people that inhabit and enjoy them. A complete creative, Lizzie is a self published landscape photographer, poet and she writes and performs with her band.
Bex
Bex joined us back in 2014 as a gardener in training. Bex worked with us alongside completing her RHS training.
After many successful gardening years in Bristol, Bex moved away to pursue a life by the sea…she returns to work with us now for the 2023 season ahead, bringing her years of gardening expertise back to the fold.
Will
“Maddy, Garth and the whole team delivered a beautiful garden that we will enjoy for many years to come. ”
