Jennifer Gay is a landscape designer, writer and gardener based in Greece.   She specialises in the creation of climate-adapted, naturalistic landscapes, natural habitats and gardens.  With twenty-five years’ design and gardening experience in the Mediterranean Basin, she has developed a deep, intuitive knowledge of growing plants in summer-dry climates. 

 

Drawing on this and a life-long love of plants and wild places, her aim is to create beautiful spaces where people feel part of and uplifted by the natural world.  Alongside in-depth plant knowledge and her experience of designing varied projects across Greece, she brings a sense of place to the planting compositions, which are integral to her work. 

 

Jennifer grew up on farm in Wiltshire, southern England, and spent her childhood immersed in farming life and nature.  She studied Ecology and Geography at degree level, followed by an MA in Landscape Design at the University of Sheffield, UK.  Jennifer also trained in horticulture at Bristol Botanic Gardens and the RHS Garden at Rosemoor, Devon.  She developed dry gardening skills at Jerusalem Botanical Gardens and the Mediterranean Garden Society’s Garden at Sparoza, Greece.  She is a member of the British Landscape Institute (MLI) and has been practising as a landscape designer since 1993.

 

Jennifer has presented her work at international conferences and on guided study tours.  She regularly writes about landscape, nature, gardens and gardening, and was garden columnist for the English weekly newspaper, the Athens News, from 2000 until 2012. Jennifer has contributed to various other magazines including: Garden Design Journal (UK), House and Garden (UK), Gardens Illustrated (UK), The Mediterranean Garden (Greece), Athens Insider (Greece) and Morning Calm (Korea).

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Her book Greece: Garden of the Gods was published in July 2004