Meet the designer of Maindee Unlimited: Greening Maindee Gateway Garden at RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2025
Emily Crowley-Wroe
Emily Crowley-Wroe creates naturalistic gardens for homeowners in the Cotswolds where she grew up and now lives. Her design studio, April House Garden Design, is based in Bourton-on-the-Water, where she works on a wide range of projects from small courtyard gardens to larger countryside gardens.
See Maindee Unlimited: Greening Maindee Gateway Garden
Since graduating from the Cotswold Gardening School in 2020 Emily dived into the world of Show gardens, including The Hide Garden, which received RHS Silver-gilt medal and Best Show Garden in 2022, and HomeAway Garden, which also was awarded RHS Silver-gilt in 2023 at RHS Malvern Spring Festival.
Emily is a keen gardener and allotment owner and spends as much time as possible experimenting with growing flowers and vegetables from seed and testing plant combinations at home.
Emily says: “I wanted to create a garden for a charitable organisation. I came across the Nature Neighbourhoods project and through them met the team in Maindee and visited their Greening Maindee projects. It’s a challenging brief and a difficult environment, but an opportunity to support and publicise the fantastic work they do to improve grey urban environments and bring nature into the city.”
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