Creative Cultivation

Design & build. Gardens, ponds, natural swimming pools

As featured in Gardens Illustrated

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We design and build gardens with the environment in mind.

Every landscape already knows its own story.

Our role is simply to reveal it.

Hand-drawn garden design sketch of a wildlife pond with rill, meadow planting, boulders and winding paths
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Naturalistic pond garden with wildflower planting and low evening sun flaring through the treesPhoto: John Campbell / @roomoflight
The Studio Established 2020
Will Tomson standing on a stone slab at the edge of a wildlife pond, planting and garden studio behind himPhoto: John Campbell / @roomoflight

Dragonflies dive past your head and frogs hop in alongside you.

Will Tomson

A garden designer with a background in ecology, Will has worked in gardens across the UK, Japan and the USA before returning to his roots in South Yorkshire.

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In their words

Creeping buttercups and water mint along the edge of the Oharas wildlife pond
“In fact the less we do the more beautiful it seems to become!”
James O’Hara Co-founder, Tramlines Festival View the Oharas garden
Stepping stone path through a lush wildflower border of oxeye daisies, goldenrod and purple loosestrife at BerryWell, with low sun through the trees
“The planting around the pool has a wild and meadowy feel, so that as you swim, you feel immersed in your surroundings.”
Gardens Illustrated “Water for life”, on BerryWell View BerryWell
Ornamental grasses and echinops seedheads lit by golden hour at Bullhouse Mill
“Constantly busy with pollinators while the pond draws in wildlife… we’re delighted to recommend him.”
Charles Bullhouse Mill View Bullhouse Mill

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Gardens Illustrated spread — March 2024