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Garden Design | Soft Landscaping
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Gardens Of Eden design and create captivating planting schemes and whole gardens in Cornwall and beyond. We pride ourselves on our expert plant knowledge and innovative design skills as well as our passion for regenerative horticulture and sustainability. Trained at BSc (Hons) level in Horticulture (Garden and Landscape Design) and awarded a Permaculture Design Certificate. Our unique set of skills allow us to create beautiful gardens that respond sensitively to the location, but also benefit wildlife, store carbon and some that can produce food sustainably.
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Ecological Garden designed and created in Fowey.
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Food Forest designed and created in Newquay.
Beautiful Practical Gardens Gardens Of Eden is a professional garden design, Permaculture and soft landscaping business specialising in; Edible Landscaping and Ecological Design. We apply Permaculture principles, in addition to conventional garden design theory in all our garden and planting designs. Using this combination of methods results in the creation of ornamental multidimensional ecosystems. Gardens that benefit wildlife, store carbon and some gardens that produce food sustainably. |
The Garden of Eden; as a mythical concept was a way of life pre-agriculture, when people found abundance in nature, landscapes and gardens.
The garden provided sustainable natural capital for humans and other wildlife who were all part of a wider ecosystem. Food came from perennial crops, whose habit meant that harvests could be reaped without tilling and sowing and wildlife and ecosystems were protected. Gardens Of Eden re-imagines the concept of Eden in our green spaces and gardens, with food forests and ecological design. As a professional garden design, Permaculture and soft landscaping business, Gardens Of Eden creates beautiful gardens with additional practical functions. All our gardens will benefit wildlife and some will also produce sustainably produced, organic food. Re-imaging the concept of Eden and creating gardens to provide the same abundance for people and wildlife. |
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Zac is the owner, primary horticulturalist and planting designer at Gardens Of Eden and designs and creates captivating planting schemes and whole gardens in Cornwall and beyond. Passionate about regenerative horticulture, food security, ecosystems and sustainability, Zac's work is inspired by the concept of nature based solutions and his gardens focus on providing ecosystem services and natural capital as well aesthetic value. With a BSc (Hons) in Horticulture (Garden and Landscape Design) from Eden learning, a Permaculture design certificate and 11 years practical horticultural experience, Zac's gardens combine conventional ornamental planting design theory with permaculture and ecological principles. His planting schemes vary in themes and styles but all benefit wildlife, store carbon and some also produce organic food sustainably. Passionate about growing food and regenerative agriculture, Zac grows around 80% of his own fruit and vegetables at home from his own perennial food forest and designs ecological food forests for domestic and commercial clients with Gardens Of Eden. He also designs and creates a range of other greenspaces including exotic planting, public space food forests, wildlife ponds and wildflower meadows. As well as managing Gardens Of Eden, Zac helped to form the not-for-profit, community group, Edible Fowey and designed and created their first public food forest in Plantation Gardens. He is currently studying an MSc in Land and Ecological Restoration at Eden Learning. |
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Sub-Tropical Paradise Garden: Rainforest ecosystem observed and replicated in Fowey. Garden was created using the principle of Forest Gardening to create the aesthetic of an authentic wild rainforest. Inspired by Amazonian landscapes. Naturalistic, tropical and wild.
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Wildlife Pond at Wild Silverlake. Gardens Of Eden designed the pond and then collaborated with a local landscaper, Sean Marren to build it. Planting was then designed and implemented by Gardens Of Eden.
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Arid-Succulent Garden: Inspired by the mountainous regions of Lesotho. The Arid-Succulent garden combines hardy succulents with an arid, rocky landscape. The rocks create a warm and dry micro-climate, by storing heat and increasing water run off. Contains hardy, edible cactus; Opuntia humifusa.
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Happy People |
"We have known Zac for over a year during which time he has been employed by us as a gardener and 
"Zac has a wonderful combination of enthusiasm, plant knowledge, skill and care which he has used to great effect on our garden in Fowey. He has recently planned and planted a small area of woodland with native species, and is working to improve the planting elsewhere to encourage more wildlife into the garden. He works very hard and is as excited as we are by the improvements that he has made." 
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"We have known Zac for 2 years. He is our gardener & garden designer at our property in Fowey. 
"Zac Harris has tended and nurtured our rather wild cottage garden in Lostwithiel for about a year with knowledge and imagination and brought it under control. He has an eye for the architecture of plants and is scrupulously tidy. He has a real love of plants and gardens and is a pleasure to work with. I cannot recommend him too highly. 
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