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PIANTI DONNA
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Creating beautiful spaces for discerning
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Pianti Donna, a design and
consultancy company has at it’s head RHS Chelsea medal winning Plantswoman,
Artist and Designer Julie Slatter. |
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Julie Slatter – Plantswoman,
Artist, Designer
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Currently based in
Buckinghamshire, but working for most of her career in Central London and
Tuscany, Italy. RHS
Chelsea Flower Show 2000 medal winning designer with Steph Hunter of the
Courtyard Garden “Dream Catcher”.
Also working with Newington Nurseries on their Gold Medal winning
displays in 1999 and 2000. Co-designer and plantswoman for
Anthony de Grey Trellises, at Hampton Court 1994, 1995, 1996 and their stand
in the Main Avenue at Chelsea in 1996 All images on this site
are © Julie Slatter Pianti Donna 2003 |
“Garden design is a natural
evolution of my love of plants and in-depth knowledge of gardening, stemming
from childhood and developing through nearly 10 years professional
experience. Beginning my career with a
couple of small contractors, I was quickly appointed Head of Gardens at
Anthony de Grey Gardens in London, responsible for all aspects of the
installation of new gardens and the maintenance of existing ones, ranging
from developing planting schemes to supervising hardscaping contractors on
site. Many of these gardens are now
fully mature and when the opportunity arises to visit them, it is
always fascinating to see the "picture in my head" realised. Design work began from trying to
make the highly-decorative, two-dimensional plans of many designers a
three-dimensional reality. All too frequently paper plans would in fact, be
ergonomically unsound, ignore either soil conditions or aspect and planting
schemes "safe" - dare I say boring. My experience of working in
London obviously gave me much experience of creating seasonal, long-term or
purely decorative, containerised planting. I was lucky to have a wide variety
of corporate and private clients ensuring that my imagination was always
stretched to come up with innovative ideas, ensuring that nothing I touched
ever resembled a pub window box! In 1996, following my first
Chelsea, I went freelance and haven't looked back since! Pianti Donna was conceived as a
vehicle to cover my work as a plantswoman, artist and designer. On
the following pages you will find a small selection of my work, from a simple
window box to a slice of Tuscan hillside.
Just click on the links to view or email.” Julie – August 2001 |
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PIANTI DONNA
- The Web Site
we’re in the process of
change – some links are still pointing to the old style pages Click on the links below
to view or here to email |
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RHS Shows |
London |
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“The only
limits are your budget and my imagination” |
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Project Management Service Should you require details of our project management service, please click on the address below and we will forward details to you.
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The entire contents of
this site is copyright © Julie Slatter Pianti Donna 2003 |
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