Todd Longstaffe-Gowan

Spear’s Review 

Over the last three decades, landscape architect Todd Longstaffe-Gowan has worked on a wide variety of high-profile projects. 

These include creating a new layer for the gardens at Kensington Palace, the restoration of William III’s Privy Garden at Hampton Court and designing a garden for the Morgan Library and Museum in New York. 

He tells Spear’s that ‘it’s very nice when clients want to push the boat out and just have a bit of fun. I think that gardens ultimately want to give a lot of pleasure to people.’

In addition to his architectural work, Longstaffe-Gowan lectures widely on landscape history and design and regularly contributes to a range of publications, such as the Times and the Sunday Telegraph. His latest book, English Garden Eccentrics, was published in 2022.