Claudy Fox Gardens

Claudy Fox Gardens Qualified garden designer and horticulturist with a background in wildlife conservation, based in Bristol, South Gloucestershire.

Specialising in working with clients who are ready to invest in and connect with beautiful and nature-rich green spaces.

Lovely day planting bare root roses and visiting a site with landscaper. First wash of the year to go outside 🙌
24/02/2026

Lovely day planting bare root roses and visiting a site with landscaper.

First wash of the year to go outside 🙌


A reminder that there has been some blue sky this winter! And what gorgeous days they’ve been, even more special due to ...
18/02/2026

A reminder that there has been some blue sky this winter! And what gorgeous days they’ve been, even more special due to their rareness 😊 ☀️




Looking back to a trip to the Isle of Mull last August. Here’s a very special garden called Lip na Cloiche. What a locat...
03/02/2026

Looking back to a trip to the Isle of Mull last August. Here’s a very special garden called Lip na Cloiche. What a location! It’s a small garden but it’s packed full of plants, character and unique ways of creating paths and border edges.

29/01/2026

Winter pruning my Frances E Lester rose 💕 . New wires, taking off awkward facing stem, last year’s foliage and rosehips, then reducing side shoots to around two or three buds. Ready for spring!

This looks great 😊
24/01/2026

This looks great 😊

‘Colouring up’ this afternoon 😃 Can’t wait to show my client her new garden plan once labelled. As almost always, budget...
19/01/2026

‘Colouring up’ this afternoon 😃

Can’t wait to show my client her new garden plan once labelled. As almost always, budget is tight, so we’re making small but meaningful changes to help make a difference to the lives of my client and her family and the wildlife she’s wanting to support.

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I have some unusual clients - a bunch of wide-eyed three and four year olds and their lovely teachers - and I’m so lucky...
09/01/2026

I have some unusual clients - a bunch of wide-eyed three and four year olds and their lovely teachers - and I’m so lucky to have worked here, gardening, designing and facilitating nature connection for many years now.

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Inspired by .gray.gardens recent visit to tree nurseries, I started noticing the stand-out yellows and fiery reds around...
10/12/2025

Inspired by .gray.gardens recent visit to tree nurseries, I started noticing the stand-out yellows and fiery reds around my local patch along the lanes. Here are my stand-outs of deciduous trees still looking good in early December:

1. Quercus petraea
2. Viburnum lantana
3. Cotoneaster divaricatus with Hedera
4. Corylus corners
5. 🐕
6. Carpinus betulus
7. Acer campestre
8. Acer platanoides
9. Fagus sylvaticus
10. Tilia x europaea
11. Corylus maxima

Which is your favourite? Got to be the field maple for me ❤️

Our wildlife need us to continue to provide nectar and fruit into these colder and darker days. Can I help you to fit mo...
18/11/2025

Our wildlife need us to continue to provide nectar and fruit into these colder and darker days. Can I help you to fit more beneficial and colourful plants into your scheme?

Photo 2 of some beautiful planting pockets in Trowbridge that we came across at the weekend designed by - still looking great in mid November!










Excitement headache ahoy! After two wonderful days I think I need a lie down after barrows of sustainable gardening i...
19/09/2025

Excitement headache ahoy! After two wonderful days I think I need a lie down after barrows of sustainable gardening inspiration from an amazing line up of speakers.

Top ten nuggets for my designing and gardening
1. Arrange biodiverse landscapes in an intentional way/ contain garden wildness with edges - gardening for wildlife doesn’t have to look messy!
2. Look around your garden and surroundings to assess what the environment needs next eg. a tree that blossoms later than the ones in the street
3. Practice ‘tile tipping’ where you remove a paver to plant in its space
4. Disrupt the garden - build trenches, make mounds, tread over it - to create complexity and invite more diversity
5. Bring in waste - dead wood, sand, crushed ceramics - to add further habitats
6. Yes plant for pollinators, but don’t forget to plant food plants for their young too
7. Source local seeds (for flower gardens as well as veg) to reduce your carbon footprint and they’ll be more resilient too
8. Keep plants for as long as possible in the soil to avoid bareness. Roots do so much good for the soil! If you have a bare patch, direct sow Phacelia now for flowers in November
9. Allow your edibles to flower before harvesting so you give the pollinators a chance to use them
10. On the second Saturday of May I’m going to try and join many others in having a little plant sale - to raise money for charity and to encourage more people to think about gardening for nature

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Two weeks ago I attended the first Academy with some very experienced and talented garden designers and landscapers. ...
15/09/2025

Two weeks ago I attended the first Academy with some very experienced and talented garden designers and landscapers. did an excellent job at telling us all about this low-voltage high-quality LED garden lighting system which is easy and safe to install. We then tested the products, trialling out the different effects and uses of the lights to illuminate an outdoor space.

All in the setting of the very beautiful Bristol Botanic Gardens where the salvias, rudbeckias and heleniums were doing all the talking as the plants around them faded away.






Gorgeous gardens seen on just one day in the Lake District. Photos 1-6 Beatrix Potter’s Hill Top cottage and garden. He...
02/09/2025

Gorgeous gardens seen on just one day in the Lake District.

Photos 1-6 Beatrix Potter’s Hill Top cottage and garden. Her letters and drawings were studied to understand how the garden would’ve looked when she was there, and you can walk around the veg garden, and past the ornamentals that she would have grown.

Photo 7 Lovely wall on our walk between Hawkshead and Near Sawrey

Photo 8-9 Rambling gardens in Bowness on Windermere





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