Saul Abbott

I am a Landscape Garden Designer, living in the heart of Hackney, East London. I own a garden design company, rose-tinted grasses (www.rosetintedgrasses.co.uk) and a company creating planting schemes in fine-wine boxes, called Le VIn Jardins (www.levinjardins.co.uk). But that's not all i do, oh no. I do other things too, which i will tell you about in a moment...

My love of gardening started when i was a wee nipper, kicking a ball around my grandparents' garden, breaking their runner bean canes and stomping on lettuces. How was i to know they weren't just strange shaped grass? Years later, i thought i should make amends and started to create a garden of my own in a space fit for only shuddering and cursing at. Or so one thought... 12 months on, in the heart of Jack the Ripper country, i had created an Eden... of sorts, and that was that, a lifelong passion for creating beautiful outdoor spaces exploded, like a HUGE Giant out of a Wren's egg. Since that 'Big Bang', i have designed and constructed gardens on both sides of Canada, in the Pyrenees, in Amsterdam and at an orphanage in India, which you can see at www.theglobalgardener.wordpress.com, as well as right here in blighty (the photo on my home page is of an Amsterdam garden).

Aside from being AMAZING at designing and building gardens, i LOVE to travel and keep a travel blog at www.regurgitatin.wordpress.com, i am in the process of writing a novel and a book of short stories, i play the Harmonica BADLY and dress even worse....

My favourite artist ever is Miles Davis for his unbending individualism and killer style and i love tacos so much, i want to own a place so that i can make them for all of you.