Spear’s Review 

Since establishing his landscape design practice more than three decades ago, Todd Longstaffe-Gowan has built a reputation for his historically informed designs across the UK and abroad.

Best known for public commissions, including the redesign of the grounds at Kensington Palace, the restoration of Hampton Court Palace’s kitchen garden, and the creation of a garden for the Morgan Library & Museum in New York, he now focuses largely on private country houses and estates in the UK and Europe.

Recent projects include reviving historic châteaux in central France, designing courtyard gardens for a new museum in the Netherlands and working with Ben Pentreath Architects on a country house in Bedfordshire. Many of his clients share what he calls ‘a very English sensibility in gardens’, he tells Spear’s. ‘I enjoy historic gardens,’ he says, explaining that he often works by ‘adding new layers to make them more relevant’.