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ARNE MAYNARD is Chelsea Gold Medallist and a successful garden designer. After studying architecture, he turned to garden design and now his commissions range from large-scale country gardens to small urban spaces. His gardens have appeared in many publications, including Gardens Illustrated and the Sunday Telegraph.

In 2000 he won, with Piet Oudolf, the coveted Best Garden Award at the Chelsea Flower Show. His first book, Gardens With Atmosphere, was published by Conran Octopus in 2001, and his second book for them is titled Garden Design Details.

Biography

Arne Maynard is a successful garden designer based in Clerkenwell in London and in Monmouthshire. After studying architecture, he turned to garden design and now his commissions' range from large-scale country gardens to small urban spaces. His gardens have appeared in many publications, including Gardens Illustrated and the Sunday Telegraph, and in 2000 he won, with Piet Oudolf, the coveted Best Garden Award at the Chelsea Flower Show.

In 2001 Conran Octopus published Arne's first book Gardens with Atmosphere and he is currently writing two more for them entitled Garden Design Details Part 1 and Part 2.

He has given a series of sell-out lecture tours both here in the UK and in the US. Arne has lectured at Lady Salisbury's Hatfield Festival of Gardening 2003, the English Gardening School, The RHS Wisley, The Oxford Botanical Garden and a number of rural garden societies and trusts. In the USA he has lectured at The Royal Oak Foundation in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Among the topics he talks on are Gardens with Atmosphere and Theatre in the Garden.

He was commissioned by the National Trust to design the garden at Dyrham Park, short-listed to design the 9/11 British Memorial Garden in Manhattan and he created a sustainable garden at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Centre in Barnes, London. 

Central to Arne Maynard's work as a garden designer is his ability to identify and draw out the essence of a place, something that gives his gardens a particular quality of harmony and belonging. He has a holistic approach to design and believes that to succeed, a garden must relate and respond to its surrounding landscape, its history and to the buildings within and around its confines, as well as to the needs of its owners. . Most importantly, Arne practices what he preaches and is a passionate and experimental gardener at home in his own superb garden in Lincolnshire, that has been described as amongst "the best domestic gardens created in the last 50 years."Arne Maynard is one of the most talented garden designers working in Britain today. Whether in the city or in the depths of the country, his gardens are a magical combination of architecture and romance, the classic and the contemporary, and relate to their surroundings in subtle ways." Tricia Guild.

Updated 10/03/2009