Purple Flowers’ director and garden designer Liesbeth has over 20 years’ experience of gardening and growing her own food. She believes that garden design is a journey rather than an event as nature has often its own design in mind. Nature makes sure that no garden is the same one month from the other, year upon year. Designing is not an exercise in taming nature, but a way to connect with nature.
Her extensive plant knowledge is a result of a rudimentary love of plants and always being on the lookout for those plants that have another distinctive feature in addition to being beautiful. She’ll plant a clematis that will not only dazzle you in flowers, but that will also give flowers to float in a bowl on the dining table. She’ll suggest a rose that makes wonderfully fragrant potpourri for your bathroom and incorporates herbs in your garden which you use for tisanes and bees for nectar and pollen.
Liesbeth is also a mosaic artist and believes in incorporating a bit of art in every garden which her designs show. Check out her mosaics here.
Director and website manager Max enjoys sitting in the garden and helps out where he can. He finds digging hard work, but also quite satisfying.
Purple Flowers was founded in 2019 and is based in Cambridge.