NEWS

July 2003 - Re-launch of web site

The Lucy Huntington Partnership has always been extremely busy but half way through 2003 the range of work being undertaken and the variety of ongoing projects has probably never been greater. The re-launch of the web site reflects the diversity of the work.

July 2003 - RHS Wisley

The formal opening of the completed Herb Garden designed by Lucy Huntington took place on July 3rd. Wisley Curator Jim Gardener enthused over the new design which has broken away from the traditional squares and rectangles by introducing a pattern based upon circles. The full range of herbs which can be grown in the U.K. are on display, with areas devoted to all the major categories of herbs, i.e. culinary, medicinal etc. It is anticipated that the new garden will be a major draw for Wisley’s 650,000 annual visitors.

May 2003 - Low allergen gardening

The tenth anniversary of the first ‘Low Allergen Garden’ at Chelsea Flower Show when Lucy Huntington designed and exhibited with the National Asthma Campaign the world’s first Low Allergen Garden focusing on the needs of gardeners for whom asthma and hay fever can limit the enjoyment of their gardens and gardening. The interest in the subject continues with a further reprint of Lucy’s 1998 definitive book ‘Creating a Low Allergen Garden’ published by Mitchell Beazley - see publications.

April 2003 - Major private estate in the USA

April 2003 saw the tenth anniversary of the first visit to our Illinois project where a unique landscape and garden is being created for a private client. Over the ten years an amazing landscape has emerged covering some 800 acres. The layouts and the designs are heavily influenced by European gardens and landscapes but have now evolved using a vernacular specific to the site. The project has developed a scope and life all of it’s own and reflects the owner’s passion for planting trees and creating a totally unique landscape.

October 2002 - Books

All Lucy Huntington’s books are now available in paperback, click on books to see the full list and proceed to purchase any of them via Amazon.co.uk.

June 2002 - The Hurlingham Club

Since 1995 Lucy Huntington has been horticultural and garden design consultant to the Hurlingham Club in London and has been responsible for the designs for a range of projects which have upgraded many areas of the grounds and gardens. The Club has now embarked on a further major building project with input from Lucy to develop the gardens, landscape and water feature which will surround the new extension opening in 2004.

June 2000 - Pilgrims Hospice, Ashford, Kent

Lucy Huntington is currently working on the design for the gardens which will surround the new Hospice due for completion this autumn.

June 2000 - Wye College Merger Garden

Work is well advanced for the installation of the Chelsea Flower Show garden on a permanent site in one of the modern quadrangles at Wye College to celebrate the merger with Imperial College on 1st August 2000.

May 2000 - RHS Chelsea Flower Show

Lucy Huntington's design for the Wye College display in the new Lifelong Learning Pavilion was awarded a Silver Gilt medal.  The design was of an apothecary garden combined with modern medicinal herbs which demonstrated the important links between horticulture and medicine.