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Our Directors

The UK’s leading garden design school combines the experience of three of the UK’s leading garden professionals Nina Baxter, Andrew Fisher Tomlin and Andrew Wilson. All three are successful garden designers in their own right with many design awards between them and extensive teaching experience.

Director Nina Baxter

Nina Baxter

Director

Nina Baxter is an accomplished garden designer, plantswoman and horticulturist and has been widely recognised for her planting designs. She has been involved with the College for many years and became Director and Course Leader for the Planting Design Diploma in July 2023.

Garden design school Director Andrew Wilson

Andrew Wilson

Fellow Emeritus

Andrew Wilson was one of the founders of the London College of Garden Design and although he has stepped down as course director, he continues to be involved through both teaching and consultancy.

Andrew is widely acknowledged as one of the UK’s leading garden design lecturers. He has been at the forefront of garden design teaching in the UK and overseas for 40 years. As well as teaching design he also continues to practice. Having previously been a partner in Wilson McWilliam he is now a consultant to McWilliam Studio, working both nationally and internationally.

Andrew Fisher Tomlin

Andrew Fisher Tomlin

Director of Environmental Design

Andrew Fisher Tomlin is a Chartered Horticulturist and a Fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Horticulture, the UK’s professional body for horticulture and the Society of Garden and Landscape Designers, the UK’s professional body for garden design. He is well known for creating gardens and landscapes around the world and has won many awards for his work in a number of countries including Australia, the USA and New Zealand as well as in the UK. 

His new book ‘The Modern Professional Planting Designer’ will be published by Rizzoli New York in September 2025.