The sensory allure of plants and the power of successful planting combinations in garden design is what inspired Miranda to study Horticulture four years ago. An architect’s daughter with 20 years’ experience in period property renovation projects and a passion for creating beautiful gardens, Miranda is also a professional musician who studied at St Hilda’s College, Oxford and at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London.  She completed the two year RHS Level 2 Certificate in the Principles of Horticulture in 2018, gaining commendations in 6 of the 8 units, while also training in computer aided design with Vectorworks Landmark at Nicholsons Nurseries. Miranda combines her love of music with a creative eye for the harmonious elements in a garden landscape, taking into account the unique structure, setting and history of each site as well as the aspect, soil type, topography and function.  Her work encompasses large scale re-design to detailed planting schemes in both historic and contemporary settings. 

The Swedish botanist, zoologist and Doctor of Medicine, Carl Linnaeus was the first to establish Latin binomial nomenclature as a universally accepted taxonomic system for the naming of organisms.  So called after a giant Linden tree in his home village, Linnaeus studied natural history, botany and medicine at Lund, Uppsala and Harderwijk in the Netherlands; he undertook extensive botanical research expeditions on behalf of the Swedish government and published Systemae Naturae in 1735.  A founder of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science, in 1741 he became Doctor of Medicine, Botany and Natural History at Uppsala University, where he substantially re-designed the Botanic Garden to illustrate his theories on the interrelationships of plant genera and species.  His Species Plantarum of 1753, an encyclopaedic survey of over 7,300 species, is globally accepted as the foundation from which modern botanical nomenclature derives.