Financial Times - House & Home - 21 May, 2017
"In Oxfordshire, Bridget Elworthy is another innovative gardener-grower. She took on a large garden when she moved to the UK from New Zealand and quickly saw the potential to make it productive, both in terms of cut flowers and vegetables. Along with Henrietta Courtauld she set up The Land Gardeners, and designs productive gardens. As a consultancy, it also advises on productive gardening and runs workshops exploring healthy plants, soil biodiversity and living gardens.
The future, then, is not looking too grim and I feel Constance Spry would be very excited to see recent develoments." - Shane Connolly
American VOGUE - May 2017
Natural Wonders - By Patrick Kinmonth
"As they discuss their work, I am reminded of Dylan Thomas's famous line 'The force that through the green fuse drives the flower.' Both Elworthy and Courtauld light up with electric empathy. 'That's it!' they cry as one. 'That's basically all you need to say. It's absolutely all about celebrating that force, nurturing it, encouraging it, increasing its power in your life, living it and giving it.' With that we go outside."
House & Garden - April 2017
"In 2013, Henrietta and her friend Bridget Elworthy set up The Land Gardeners as they shared a passion for soil and plant health. They restore and design walled gardens and supply organically grown cut flowers, which are freshly picked from Bridget's Oxfordshire garden and delivered weekly to London's most original florists, chick design shops and some lucky private clients."
El Blog De La Tabla - March 2017
MANOS A LA TIERRA Y A LAS FLORES: The Land Gardeners
They understand that sustainability in gardens begin with soil. "Soil health, animal health, and ultimately, human health are all united."
This is what The Land Gardeners, or Bridget Elworthy and Henrietta Courtauld, garden designers who hae achieved great recognition in their projects for designs of walled gardens and cut flower cultivation believe. Their passion is the soil and their focus is organic cultivation.
ORC Bulletin - Winter 2016
The Organic Research Centre Bulletin
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Financial Times - 2/3 July 2016
16 - Known as the Land Gardeners (thelandgardeners.com), Henrietta Courtauld and Bridget Elworthy supply cut flowers from the walled gardens of Wardington Manor in Oxfordshire, where they also run workshops. (thelandgardeners.com)
Cabana - Summer 2016
"There are not many places you can walk around with muddy wellies on throughout the house, or linger in the garden on beautiful armchairs and sofas carried out from the library; children running everywhere, free and wild. It is like living in a place like no other. There is never a moment to miss. The house is always filled with flowers all grown here at Wardington. Every room is a masterpiece, complete with overblown blousy blooms filling buckets, vases and tables.
Bridget's strong sense of style and kooky fun has run an amazing course; living in New York for a number of years, then France and New Zealand, before settling at Wardington, where her passion for gardens and flowers has flourished.
A large collection a vases, bowls, urns and hundreds of buckets line the walls and floors of the flower room. A mismatch of pictures hangs on one wall. The room is a hive of activity, full of the smell of fresh cut flowers coming in from the cutting garden where they are picked at dawn and dusk every day. The flowers both fill the house and fill buckets that are sent to London each week to supply top florists and private clients.
Wardington is beyond being a family home: it is also the birthplace of ‘The Land Gardeners’, the duo of Bridget Elworthy and her great friend Henrietta Courtauld. Their flowers, all grown at Wardington (in borders, fields and an enchanting walled garden) are highly sought after in England and all over the world, where Bridget and Henrietta have successfully designed and planted exquisite gardens in France, New Zealand, Zimbabwe and Italy; mostly focusing on walled gardens.
The Land Gardeners are enthusiastic about teaching people, raising awareness of the value of the soil, and the benefits it can have on growing flowers and vegetables. They hold courses in the grounds and house at Wardington, teaching an array of fabulous classes in the potting shed or the tall library in the house; exploring healthy plants, soil, living gardens, cut flowers, natural dying, growing and creating your own gardens."
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