From city gardens to countryside estates and even African game reserves!

In addition to managing The Sustainable Garden, Charlotte offers private consultancy work for clients in the UK, Europe and Africa. Her background is diverse which enables her to offer a well-rounded multi-disciplinary approach to her work.
From her first career in an international business environment, she then re-trained and ran her own garden design and landscaping business where she created many dozens of beautiful small city gardens for a league of happy clients. Her additional qualifications as a naturopathic nutritional therapist meant she became passionate about healthy gardening techniques and she developed her knowledge of ecological gardening over several years, most recently gaining a Post Graduate Diploma with Distinction in Sustainable Food and Natural Resources.
Charlotte creates gardens that feature beautiful but low-maintenance native and naturalistic planting combinations to offer year-round interest while providing sustenance and habitat for wildlife. She has experience in creating native wildflower meadows, building nature ponds, orchard management, and in native plant and tree selection.
Charlotte also specialises in Potager Gardens which offer a most attractive and ecological way to grow food. She uses a mixture of organic, biodynamic, permaculture and no-dig, covering a broad range of sustainable land management methods.
Charlotte has consulted for clients across Devon and the UK as well as in Europe and even at an eco-camp in the Masai Mara game reserve!
The work in Kenya focused on developing increased sustainability and self-sufficiency introducing rainwater harvesting systems, teaching composting techniques and sustainable food-growing principles to support productivity. She worked closely with the local Masai team to deliver practical solutions within a challenging African climate.
Charlotte’s combination of education and wide-ranging experience means she is extremely well placed to advise clients in a variety of situations, large and small. Consultancy options include:
  • the creation of, or adaption to, ecologically friendly, sustainable gardens
  • specific advice on features like wildflower meadows and nature ponds
  • design, build and management concepts for Potager gardens
An initial visit to an average size property usually takes around two hours and is followed with a detailed written summary of recommendations, which may include advise on re-designing certain sections or re-configuring the whole area. If required, detailed designs or planting plans are quoted for individually, dependant on size of project.
Charlotte lives and works in South Devon, so travel within a 10-mile radius of Totnes is included in the initial consultancy fee. Beyond that area mileage/travel and accommodation charges, if necessary, will be required in addition to the Consultancy

If you’d like to know more please email:
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Browse the gallery below to see some of Charlotte’s work
The wildflower meadow was hand-seeded in the spring of 2017 and gets more established each year, providing a beautiful mix of native British species including knapweed, ox-eye daisies, birds-foot trefoil, lady’s mantle and much more!
The wildflower meadow was hand-seeded in the spring of 2017 and gets more established each year, providing a beautiful mix of native British species including knapweed, ox-eye daisies, birds-foot trefoil, lady’s mantle and much more!
View showing the wildflower meadow, pond and potager garden that Charlotte created at her home in south Devon, which has become the location for The Sustainable Garden.
View showing the wildflower meadow, pond and potager garden that Charlotte created at her home in south Devon, which has become the location for The Sustainable Garden.
In early summer in Charlotte’s own garden the wide herbaceous borders are full of English country garden classics such as roses, clematis and alliums, with foxgloves and phlomis providing both vertical interest and a feast for pollinating insects.
In early summer in Charlotte’s own garden the wide herbaceous borders are full of English country garden classics such as roses, clematis and alliums, with foxgloves and phlomis providing both vertical interest and a feast for pollinating insects.
The brief for this holiday house near Salcombe was for a glorious display of long-flowering plants to provide a summery setting for family and guests throughout the holidays.
The brief for this holiday house near Salcombe was for a glorious display of long-flowering plants to provide a summery setting for family and guests throughout the holidays.
When this new village hall was built there was no budget left for planting so Charlotte organised a plant donation day, then designed and planted this ornamental bed.
When this new village hall was built there was no budget left for planting so Charlotte organised a plant donation day, then designed and planted this ornamental bed.
Contrasting textural foliage shapes and a harmonious colour palette, with the kitchen garden at the far end of a London garden.
Contrasting textural foliage shapes and a harmonious colour palette, with the kitchen garden at the far end of a London garden.
The far end of this small garden in Balham was zoned off into an attractive formal kitchen garden with raised beds using a border of flowering perennials and a pergola archway to give vertical interest.
The far end of this small garden in Balham was zoned off into an attractive formal kitchen garden with raised beds using a border of flowering perennials and a pergola archway to give vertical interest.
Even a tiny city garden can have space for veg, herbs and fruit bushes, achieved using different heights of raised beds and zoning different areas using landscaping materials with charming old sleepers to raise up the far end.
Even a tiny city garden can have space for veg, herbs and fruit bushes, achieved using different heights of raised beds and zoning different areas using landscaping materials with charming old sleepers to raise up the far end.
This south London garden had previously dismayed its owners with a scrappy sloping lawn and a few disconsolate shrubs. The need for mowing was dispensed by creating wide herbaceous borders separated by a generous sweeping brick path leading to a raised seating area at the far end surrounded by raised beds for fruit, veg and herbs.
This south London garden had previously dismayed its owners with a scrappy sloping lawn and a few disconsolate shrubs. The need for mowing was dispensed by creating wide herbaceous borders separated by a generous sweeping brick path leading to a raised seating area at the far end surrounded by raised beds for fruit, veg and herbs.
Charlotte used as many pollinator-friendly plants as possible to provide food and habitat for wildlife while designing the planting layout to provide interesting foliage shapes and textures in this community village hall planting project.
Charlotte used as many pollinator-friendly plants as possible to provide food and habitat for wildlife while designing the planting layout to provide interesting foliage shapes and textures in this community village hall planting project.
Late summer is a time for ‘hot’ colours in the planting scheme designed to contrast with the black wooden walls of the Village Hall community planting project.
Late summer is a time for ‘hot’ colours in the planting scheme designed to contrast with the black wooden walls of the Village Hall community planting project.
Wild Shamba gardeners Noonkuta and Josephine show members of the Masai community how to do the Indore method of composting that Charlotte helped them set up
Wild Shamba gardeners Noonkuta and Josephine show members of the Masai community how to do the Indore method of composting that Charlotte helped them set up
Using the permaculture principle of using recycled local materials to add support structures for tomatoes in the Wild Shamba kitchen gardens in the Masai Mara, Kenya which also add vertical interest to the large space
Using the permaculture principle of using recycled local materials to add support structures for tomatoes in the Wild Shamba kitchen gardens in the Masai Mara, Kenya which also add vertical interest to the large space
Ernest the gardener with the new tomato supports structures, made using recycled local materials, in the Wild Shamba kitchen gardens in the Masai Mara, Kenya
Ernest the gardener with the new tomato supports structures, made using recycled local materials, in the Wild Shamba kitchen gardens in the Masai Mara, Kenya
Building sustainability by creating a new composting bay system from recycled materials in the kitchen gardens in this eco-camp in the Masai Mara, Kenya.
Building sustainability by creating a new composting bay system from recycled materials in the kitchen gardens in this eco-camp in the Masai Mara, Kenya.
Some of the team who worked on sustainability projects with Charlotte in the Wild Shamba at House in the Wild, Masai Mara, Kenya
Some of the team who worked on sustainability projects with Charlotte in the Wild Shamba at House in the Wild, Masai Mara, Kenya
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