Christopher Bradley–Hole is one of the UK’s top garden designers. He originally trained and graduated as an architect in 1976 at what is now known as Brighton University, where he also attended a post-graduate course in landscape architecture and then post-graduate diploma studies in the conservation of historic gardens and landscapes at the Architectural Association in London.

He now runs an international design practice from his London Studio, where his work embraces a portfolio of high-profile public landscape projects and town and country gardens for private clients.

He is a member of the Society of Garden Designers and teaches garden design to students of the diploma course at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. He is probably best known for his five gold medals and two Best Show Garden awards at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and for his design for the garden at the original Arsenal Football Stadium, which is now being converted into a residential complex by Allies and Morrison, the architects for the latest Brighton Marina proposals.

Anna Pavord, the very well known garden writer, wrote after one of her Chelsea Garden Show visits, “Fortunately, Christopher Bradley-Hole was at Chelsea again with a brilliantly designed garden, elegant, calm, rich and superbly executed. Quite rightly it won the award for Best in Show….His designs are always uncompromising, always modern, and I don’t always find them easy to understand. But I always admire them. This one I both admired and loved…The planting was immaculate, subdued, but full of richness and movement”.

His work has been featured widely on television and in the press. He has recently published his second book “Making the Modern Garden”, which looks at the finest modern gardens from around the world together with detailed studies of some of his own gardens. “Making the Modern Garden” follows his highly claimed first book, “The Minimalist Garden” which won the Garden Writers’ Guild Inspirational Book of the Year Award in 1999.