Creating a Romantic English Country Garden 

The courtyard

with ISABEL & JULIAN BANNERMAN — Acclaimed British garden designer duo.

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This lesson explains how a bleak courtyard became a warm outdoor room through cobbles, gravel, big pots and bright, self-seeding planting.

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Isabel & Julian  Bannerman

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Isabel & Julian Bannerman

Acclaimed British garden designer duo.

Isabel Bannerman and Julian Bannerman have been designing landscapes and garden architecture together since 1983, creating poetic spaces that balance living beauty with clarity of form. Renowned for their romantic English-country aesthetic, they work across urban, woodland and heritage gardens, always inspired by the site’s character rather than imposing a style. Their work is celebrated for its inventive use of space, structure and planting, and is underpinned by an organic ethos and sustainable materials.

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