Lulu Urquhart

Crowned “Best in Show” at RHS Chelsea in 2022 for Urquhart & Hunt’s ‘A Rewilding Britain Landscape’ (featuring foraged logs sculpted by beavers) Lulu Urquhart is a plants woman, geomancer, land listener, organic & biodynamic landscape designer and an earth-acupuncturist with a passion for traditional plant-lore, sacred land, reigniting of ancient ways and ecological restoration.

With Adam Hunt, her design partner of 22 years, their work with ecological landscape design focuses on connecting with subtle earth energies and the ecology for re-establishing healthy biomes and using beauty in nature to enhance our human experience.

Lulu has worked on over one hundred gardens across the UK and Globally. These gardens have been of varying sizes for both public and private clients. Of particular note are the estate of Woolsery on Exmoor, a regenerative farm estate celebrating syntropic farming and rewilding the soil as a base for deeply nutritious food systems; The Giardini Pistola in Puglia is a beautiful garden with a series of six terraced gardens; planted with a plethora of grasses, perennials, roses, fruit and trees - all drought and Xylella resistant plants; another is Cambridge city mosque, an eco-architectural phenomenon with a public sacred garden, full of the plant jewels inspired by the Ottoman, Persian and Islamic empires. U&H have worked on creating and designing several landscapes for well-known retreats and healing spaces, such as 42 Acres in Somerset, with a premise to listen the land; to encourage balancing and healing at the core, thus providing the most activating conditions for the strongest resonance for healing humans on that land too.

In 2015 U&H co-founded the Tree Conference. A platform to unite information and priority for the trees; to create awareness and respect for their intelligence, sentience and place in managing our global climatic system and deep soil integrity.

Their work currently takes them to an incredible landscape project in France, Ireland with Piet Oudolf and to India and the sacred lands of Tamil Nadu, and not least, much excitement and many collaborations close to home in Somerset.

In their recent column in Homes & Gardens “Wild Prospects”, they colourfully informed readers about all the possibilities of ecological restoration in the garden setting.