Butter Wakefield - PROFILE

Butter grew up on the East Coast of America, on a little farm outside of Baltimore, Maryland.  Her love for dogs, ponies and all things outdoors taught her at an early age the responsibility and hard work that accompanies these pleasures.  Her mother, aunt and grandfather were all keen and accomplished gardeners, and she remembers with great fondness wandering around their beautiful gardens as a child - her deep appreciation of beautiful surroundings and passion for gardening is a family inheritance running deep in her veins. 

Butter trained at the English Gardening School (1997/98) completing the Year Diploma Course in Plants and Plantsmanship, and winning two prizes. More recently she graduated from The London College of Garden Design (2013/14) with a Merit Commended. Originally she worked as an interior design assistant at Colefax and Fowler on Brook Street where she was trained in the world of decorative interiors.  It was there that her love of the creative process took hold as she learned about scale, texture, pattern, colour and the principles and practices of design.

Butter Wakefield Garden Design is a small design studio, offering a very unique and personal service. Butter has over 15 years of experience creating many inspirational and purposeful gardens of all sizes both in London and beyond.  She has a profound love for her job and her clients and takes a tremendous amount of time and care over them both.

AWARDS

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SOCIETY OF GARDEN DESIGNERS 

2020 DOUBLE WINNER of ‘Small Residential’ + ‘Hardscape’ Categories for ‘RIBBON WHEEL GARDEN’

BALI AWARDS

2019 PRINCIPAL WINNER of ‘Domestic Garden Construction - £100K-£250K’ Category for ‘RIBBON WHEEL GARDEN’

2015 AWARD WINNER for ‘THE CIRCUS, BATH’

RHS FLOWER SHOWS

2018 CHELSEA FLOWER SHOW:  5* BEST TRADE STAND AWARD for ‘GAZE BURVILL’  

2017 CHATSWORTH FLOWER SHOW: RHS GOLD MEDAL + PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD for ‘BELMOND ENCHANTED GARDEN’


PROLANDSCAPER BUSINESS AWARDS

2018 WINNER of ‘Garden Designer’ Category

2019 SHORTLISTED for ‘Small Project, Big Impact’ Category for ‘NOTTING HILL COURTYARD’

VANDE MOORTEL AWARDS

2021 SILVER City Gardens Category for CHELSEA TOWN HOUSE ‘SHALCOMB STREET’

HOUSE & GARDEN

2021 & 2O22 & 2023 TOP 50 GARDEN DESIGNERS

HOMES & GARDENS - DESIGN AWARDS

2022 WINNER Small Garden of the Year for CHELSEA TOWN HOUSE ‘SHALCOMB STREET’