DESIGN TEAM

Freddie’s journey to the Nicholson’s Design team started whilst on a placement year, as part of his degree in product design at Bournemouth University. Graduating with BA honours, Freddie returned to us as an enthusiastic, hardworking and creative minded designer to pick up where he left off. He worked for a while in partnership with Liz allowing her to focus more of her efforts on being managing director. Under her direct mentoring Freddie drew upon her 20 years of experience designing gardens. For the last few years he has progressed into a lead designer, working on projects ranging from Oxford townhouses, country estates, Manor houses and restorations, developing a broad skill set in garden design.

Favourite Garden – Witley Court gardens and Parkland
Why – The beautiful derelict house, reminiscent of a forgotten Blenheim, is preserved by a glory of formal gardens and ponds which help to justly restore the architecture to its magnificent past. I have fond memories of the gardens and woodlands from regular trips with my grandparents as a young child. Whilst the gardens are not actually to my taste, the many memories I have from enjoying the space with my family are very prominent. I use this as inspiration to create the same memories for my clients in their gardens.

After managing our retail shop for nearly 5 years, Nadia has moved over to design having loved the creativity aspect. She works alongside Freddie to assist with drawing the designs on CAD, and meeting clients to discuss their visions. Nadia is also our outdoor lighting specialist. Having worked with our supplier closely over the years, she has a great eye for placing lighting discreetly into garden designs.

Favourite garden : Powis Castle and Gardens. My grandparents live near Welshpool. Every time we visited them, we would take a trip to the castle to have a beautiful walk around the gardens, exploring all the different terraces and shaped topiary. (Sometimes we would have a slice of cake and tea after).