A Shared Vision: Tom Stuart-Smith’s Coastal Symphony in West Wittering
Tom Stuart-Smith is highly regarded and influential landscape architect. He is celebrated for his ability to weave naturalism with modernity in gardens that resonate with emotional depth and ecological sensitivity.
Graduate Landscapes shares an enduring relationship with Tom. A partnership rooted in trust and shared commitment to crafting extraordinary landscapes that combine innovative hard landscaping with inspirational planting.
Stuart-Smith’s contemporary naturalism produces free spirited and wild feeling landscape designs that belie his scrupulous precision planning. The balance between structured design and the organic beauty of nature requires attention to detail and faultless execution to maintain aesthetic cohesion. This is an environment Graduate Landscapes thrive in. We work closely with Tom to ensure every detail, landscaping technique, and planting pattern is executed meticulously and beautifully.
Together, we celebrate sustainable gardening that works in concert with the local flora and fauna, ensuring each design is inextricably linked to its environment. This shared vision came to life in the creation of a breath taking coastal garden in West Wittering, West Sussex, where our collaboration with Stuart-Smith produced a sanctuary of refined serenity and ecological harmony.
In the West Wittering, West Sussex garden design project, Graduate Landscapes and Tom Stuart-Smith united to craft a garden that exudes contemporary elegance while embracing the wild beauty of its coastal setting. The design, a masterful interplay of structured elements and naturalistic planting, creating spaces that are both functional and poetic. Lush swathes of grasses and resilient coastal perennials, carefully selected to thrive in the salty air, weave a vibrant tapestry that echoes the untamed beauty of the Sussex shoreline. These soft plantings are framed by crisp, architectural lines of locally sourced stone and subtle pathways, which guide the eye across the landscape, blurring the boundaries between garden and sea. The result is a serene retreat that balances social spaces for elegant gatherings with tranquil corners for quiet reflection, embodying Stuart-Smith’s philosophy of “setting the scene without imposing a story.”
Our shared attention to detail ensured that every element, from the weathered patina of the stone to the rhythmic sway of the grasses, harmonizes with the natural flora and fauna, creating a garden timeless coastal retreat.
