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Isabel and Julian Bannerman are award-winning British garden designers. Isabel is a photographer, writer and garden journalist. They have been working together since 1983. They live and garden in Somerset in the West of England.

Career
Inspired by the English landscape, water, woodlands, the history of man in the landscape and natural history, the Bannerman's are known for their historically informed, environmentally conscious, organic gardening ethos and romantic, dreamy aesthetic. They have designed gardens for several nationally-important houses, including Highgrove, Gloucestershire; The Castle of Mey, Dumfries House and Birkhall in Scotland, for HRH The Prince of Wales; The Dairy at Waddesdon Manor ( garden and architectural restoration and conversion into an office and conference centre), Buckinghamshire, for Lord Rothschild; Wormsley Park, Buckinghamshire, for John Paul Getty Jr.; Woolbeding, Midhurst for Stewart Grimshaw and Simon Sainsbury; Houghton Hall, Norfolk, for the Marquess of Cholmondeley; and Arundel Castle, West Sussex, for the Duke of Norfolk; in 2003 winning a competition to design the British 9/11 Memorial Garden on Manhattan. Other clients include Andrew Lloyd-Webber; Jasper Conran; Jay Joplin; Caryn Mandabach producer of ‘Peaky Blinders’; the ultimate London Club, 5 Hertford Street for Robin Birley; and designs unexecuted for Heckfield Place Hotel; Asthall Manor, Oxfordshire – once home to the Mitford sisters and now holding the Sculpture Biennial 'On Form' in the garden. They have also designed an Italianate villa and its gardens on Mustique Island in the Antilles.

They are known for their educated understanding of the history of architecture and gardens, also natural history and increasingly ecology and conservation plays a big role in their approach. Simple informal native planting and combining formality of structure with fluidity of planting, sometimes described as romantic, is their specialty, most evident in their own gardens The Ivy, Chippenham; Hanham Court, Bristol; Trematon Castle, Cornwall. They are also designers and makers of garden buildings, most famously wooden structures such as the pair of Green Oak Temples at Highgrove.

Many of their gardens are open to the public; Asthall Manor; Hanham Court; Houghton Hall; Arundel Castle ; Woolbeding; Dumfries House; Seend Manor among others. They currently live in Somerset. Julian and Isabel Bannerman met in Edinburgh in 1982 and have three sons.

Books and Photography
Julian and Isabel Bannerman have co-written one book, Landscape of Dreams (2016) about their work, and Isabel Bannerman has written a second book, Scent Magic (2019) about scented plants and memoir, both of which were on the Sunday Times ‘Gardening Books of The Year’ list and well-reviewed. Isabel is currently working on a third. Isabel has written garden articles for Country Life, the Sunday Times, the Telegraph etc.. Isabel is also a botanical photographer who has had four solo shows of work, which is collected by Jasper Conran, Richard E. Grant and Evgeny Lebedev among others.

Awards
The Bannermans won a Europa Nostra award for their architectural and landscape work at Waddesdon Dairy and also a Civic Trust Award for its restoration; a Gold Medal at RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 1994 ; Houghton Hall been awarded Christie’s Garden of The Year. They also won a competition to design the British Memorial Garden to 9/11 in New York. They were awarded the Royal Warrant of the Prince of Wales in 1998.