Paul Hervey-Brookes is an multi-award-winning garden designer broadcaster, lecturer and plantsman who lives in England near Stroud, Gloucestershire and in the Loire Valley in France where his garden is occasionally open to the public. Hervey-Brookes is known for a "plants first" approach to garden design and creates highly evocative landscapes. Hervey-Brookes is a well known Royal Horticultural Society Gardens Judge and speaker having lectured in the United Kingdom, Canada and Russia alongside working with a host of companies who share his values and passion for exchanging knowledge.
Career
Paul Hervey-Brookes is a noted English garden designer and plantsman. Hervey-Brookes grew up in Oxford and studied at both Pershore College of Horticulture and The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh focusing on plants before later landscape architecture at Cheltenham.
Hervey-Brookes has exhibited at all of the English Flower Shows including 3 Gold Medals at RHS Chelsea Flower Show, 4 Gold Medals, and People’s Choice at RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show and both Best in Show Awards and Peoples choice alongside Gold at RHS Tatton Park and RHS Chatsworth.
In total Hervey-Brookes has 13 Gold Medals, alongside a host of awards in the UK and internationally.
Hervey-Brookes has represented the United Kingdom at the Gardening World Cup in Japan in 2013, where he won Gold and Best Planting Award. Hervey-Brookes has exhibited at other international garden shows such as The Ellerslie International Flower Show held in New Zealand, Scene's du Jardin held in Lyon, Japan Home & Garden Show 2015 and the Philadelphia International Flower Show.
Hervey-Brookes was awarded a merit of honour in 2024 by The horticultural industry in the Republic of Korea for his work there and invited as a Carte Vert Guest to exhibit at the International Festival at Chaumont-sur-Loire in 2024 making him the first British designers to have that honour. Hervey-Brookes is an honorary Fellow of the British Institute of Quarrying in recognition of his educational work in that field.
In 2014 The Royal Horticultural Society announced that Hervey-Brookes would be Mentor for the Royal Horticultural Society prestigious Young Designer of the Year competition which culminates in the finalists creating gardens at RHS Tatton Park Flower Show after having ten intensive months of guidance from Hervey-Brookes and the RHS Team. Hervey-Brookes continued at mentor until 2018.
In 2021 Hervey-Brookes was again announced as a mentor for the RHS for its new category at Chelsea Flower Show for balcony and container gardens open to designers who have never built at the show before.
Hervey-Brookes has been a Trials Member for the RHS Award of Garden Merit an industry wide recognised scheme which trials and evaluates the garden worthiness of plant material, since 2016 Hervey-Brookes has been an RHS Gardens Judge and chairman at shows such as RHS Chelsea, RHS Malvern Spring Garden Festival and RHS Tatton Park.
As a design practice Paul Hervey-Brookes Associates works both in the United Kingdom and Internationally on private and public commissions.
Bradstone Design
Launched in 2013 Bradstone Design[1] be a series of highly inspirational garden designs created as downloadable packs for the paving and garden stone manufacturer Bradstone. The designs are all based on a domestic scale gardens and have a range of options from downloading the design guide and creating on a 'DIY' basis to being fully installed by a Bradstone Assured Landscape Contractor.
Marks & Spencer
In Autumn 2012 Marks & Spencer launched an exclusive range of gardening gifts designed by Hervey-Brookes. The Range[2] is aimed at increasing habitat and biodiversity in the garden whilst remaining elegant and desirable. To date Hervey-Brookes is the only garden designer Marks & Spencer have approached to work with on gardening projects.
Allomorphic
Allomorphic was a short lived garden and lifestyle Concept store whose motto is 'Inspired by the Garden' There were two stores in Stroud, the first opening in March 2016 and the second September 2017. Alongside plants for the house and garden Allomorphic source a wealth of garden and lifestyle products, crafts and ceramics from individual makers and a range of own brand goods from tea, soaps and body creams to project paints, greetings cards, bird food and bags. The idea to create an aspirational yet affordable gardening brand was originally conceived by Hervey-Brookes partner Yann Eshkol (1981 – 2016) and they opened the first store jointly as a showcase of their combined designed ideas. After the death of Yann Eshkol, Hervey-Brookes decided Allomorphic would cease trading in the spring of 2020
Hervey-Brookes has been a monthly columnist for Cotswold Life Magazine and writes for Real Homes Magazine. Hervey-Brookes's gardens have received much coverage both in national newspapers, including the Times, Telegraph and Financial Times and internationally in titles such as the German publications, Im garden and Garten Design Exclusiv alongside the French Gardening Journal L'art des Jardins. Paul also provides content for on-line magazines and content providers such as Amara, Luxpad and Aggregate Industries and for more traditional print media. He has been featured in on-line content providers including World Landscape Architecture Review
On television Hervey-Brookes has contributed pieces for BBC1 Country Tracks programme, the BBC Chelsea Flower Show coverage and his work has appeared on BBC Television series Bees, Butterflies & Blooms. Hosted by Sarah Raven the programme concentrated on a series of high-profile locations throughout Harrogate which had been designed by Hervey-Brookes to attract wildlife and create habitat.
In Autumn 2024 Viking Cruises announced a long format series entitled Gardens of The world with Paul Hervey-brookes which can be viewed on board all river and ocean ships alongside the website Viking TV [3][4]\
References
External links
- Paul Hervey-Brookes Associates. Landscape & Garden Design: [1]
- BrandAlley Garden Chelsea Flower Show 2013: [2]
- My Gardening School Interview Paul Hervey-Brookes: [3]
- Royal National Institute for the Blind Garden, Chelsea Flower Show 2011: [4]
- Discover Jordan garden, Hampton Court Palace 2012: [5]
- Allomorphic [6]
