Happy Place Planting and Design

Happy Place Planting and Design Thank you for landing on my page, my name is Sam and I have been passionate about gardening for many many years now including growing food in my own garden.

Plant design with integrity & personality🪴
Creating gardens made for joy💚
Your happy place starts here ✨
Working across Worcestershire & surrounding areas

Get in contact & let me bring your garden to life in 2026:
[email protected] In early 2025 I redesigned and landscaped my own garden aka my Happy Place which ignited a new found passion and flare for plant planning and installatio

n. I believe everyone should have their own happy place regardless of its size from a balcony to a large outdoor space and would love to talk to you to see how I could assist in creating or improving yours. I offer softscaping services across Worcestershire which includes anything on the plant side of things from general garden maintenance and upkeep, to border and flower bed design/redesign including creating plant plans specific to your own space to sourcing plants and installing them into newly created borders and/or food growing spaces as well as into existing growing spaces. I can offer consultation on how best to improve your own growing space whether for food or ornamental plants, with or without ongoing assistance, and have offered various talks over the last few years to the public on all manner of gardening topics including how to introduce wildlife, how to improve your soil, how to grow food, how to upkeep a garden. I love what I do and love being outdoors, so please do get in touch if you have a project in mind, I would be happy to offer a consultation to see where we go from there.

Made a start on this lovely garden last week, I will be redeveloping several areas over a period of time including this ...
20/05/2026

Made a start on this lovely garden last week, I will be redeveloping several areas over a period of time including this end corner which has been mulched with a rotted manure and straw blend from and turned into a cute vegetable patch. I w**ded the whole area, trimmed back the conifer hedge to allow for more light to get in and repurposed a couple of my clients dead plum tree branches for cucumber supports for a more natural look.

I will be returning to reinstate several borders and to take back control of several large shrubs and to work on a beautiful shaded seating area, which I am planning to turn into something special via plantingfor my client to enjoy.

If you would like help to create an area to grow food or to grow food in amongst your flowers borders in a more edimental way please get in touch with me.

You don't need a huge space to grow food but having the right soil and light conditions really does help dependent on what you plan to grow and I can certainly help with this including planning the layout and what to plant when.

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New project started, to reinstate this kitchen garden and redevelop the surrounding planting areas within this utterly g...
18/05/2026

New project started, to reinstate this kitchen garden and redevelop the surrounding planting areas within this utterly gorgeous mature garden. This wont happen overnight but the plan being for it to look very different in Spring 2027. I feel very fortunate to have this ongoing opportunity as growing food is a real personal passion project.

Watch this space....

Another brilliant Designer I had the pleasure of meeting at RHS Malvern is the very talented Jamie Dobinson of landscape...
17/05/2026

Another brilliant Designer I had the pleasure of meeting at RHS Malvern is the very talented Jamie Dobinson of landscape and garden design practice Crafted Landscapes with his incredible show garden 'The Crafted Garden'.

The spiral design, inspired by an unfurling fern symbolising protection, renewal and growth. Honest natural materials are celebrated curving towards a wildlife pond and seating area in the centre.

I particularly loved the craftmanship of the stunning moon gates, canopies and the sympathetic tree led woodland planting including many tree ferns, ferns, hostas and other perennials all supporting biodiversity.

What a first time out show garden design for Jamie, who is a genuinely nice person and was happy to offer me advice and also insight into how his design came about ➡️

Thank you Jamie it was great to meet you and congratulations on your Bronze award 🙌

'Tîr' meaning Land or Landscape in Welsh is a garden designed by Nick Anthony of .cambrica whose career and work focuses...
13/05/2026

'Tîr' meaning Land or Landscape in Welsh is a garden designed by Nick Anthony of .cambrica whose career and work focuses on planting, ecology and form.

Evoking a sense of both belonging and nostalgia, it explores the enduring relationship between land, water and the people of Wales. Structured design combined with natural processes resulting in a visual feast.

Encapsulated on 3 sides by native hedging and trees, at the entrance to the garden a cross section from a 200yr old Douglas Fir offered insight to key moments in Welsh history, the head of a Welsh dragon carved from wood with a chainsaw by a truly talented individual leads you to a path surrounded by native planting leading to a naturalistic and moving water element built by Sam Rees of , starting with a waterfall, surrounded by boulders and stone, moving water towards a sculptural pond as you would find in the stunning Welsh hills and valleys. The natural wood aspect and pergoda built by Sams wife all in keeping with the theme.

Native planting sponsored and grown by is interwoven throughout this garden to attract and support native pollinators, the focus on native planting being a sensitive nod to ensuring we do not lose focus on UK native species. And areas lushly planted with ferns as you would find when out walking in the great outdoors.

➡️ to find out what first inspired Nick to enter a show garden design for .shows 2026.

Congratulations to Nick, Sam, all the sponsors and the huge team of people and businesses behind TÎR a Welsh Landscape.

I was taken with Nicks endless passion for his work and thank him for the creative inspiration. This aspirational and achievable garden will have inspired many and I applaud him for bringing a sense of tranquility to the show with this stunning design 👏

11/05/2026

When one of your good friends who is a genuinely all round awesome human being creates something special it deserves to be celebrated ✨️

I'm blessed to count Paul as one of my friends and had the pleasure of being part of his behind the scenes team and to supporting him on his border for a day at the show.

Paul committed to designing his first RHS border for the Malvern 2026 Spring Festival way back in Summer last year and I think we can all agree that 'Reflective Memories' was a real triumph, achieving a Silver Gilt award 👏

He built his sensory garden with his lovely Dad Keith, who combined have a wealth of experience gained from many decades of working within the horticultural sector, from both a gardening and landscaping perspective.

Keep watching for my catch up with the man himself to find out what inspired this creativity 🙌

Harrison supported with growing on many of the stunning plants, which is by no means a small feat. The colourful, pollinator friendly, traditional planting scheme looked divine in this layered and textured design, featuring a previously loved chair for the gardener to take time out to reflect on life.

Seeing Paul and his Dad build this garden from the ground up was a real joy, sheer professionalism.

Sentimental, heartfelt and well thought through, witnessing Paul's confidence soar has been a real highlight, as was getting to meet his gorgeous family who have backed him all the way.

Where next for you Paul? Watch this space 🫶✨️

And thank you for supporting me during the build by taking precious time out to watch my talk at my local garden centre ☺️

10/05/2026

And that's a wrap on RHS Malvern 2026!

I am super thankful to have had the opportunity to give this, my fairly new Worcestershire based business Happy Place Planting and Design a platform by sponsoring and working with on her Silver Gilt winning design 'Life on the Land' at RHS Malvern this year. THANK YOU Mads and congratulations 🎊 🫶

Its been months of work, talks, planning and vegetable growing in the making and it has been utterly epic! Madeline your rich toned, considered and textured edimental plant design was utterly stunning ✨️

To all the wonderful people who have supported, cheered the border on, stopped by the border, inspired, helped and importantly sponsored, including good friends of Happy Place Planting and Design , and THANK YOU 💚

To , Fraser and it's been a pleasure to spend time with you as part of this wonderful team supporting Mads.

To all the other designers, landscapers, businesses, creatives and the Three Counties Showground team who were working at .shows congratulations to you all and thank you for the inspiration 🫶

Now to rest and recuperate, then to put all of the inspiration to good use within my own clients gardens.

It was a real highlight to be invited into this truly stunning Gold, Environmentally Innovative and Best in Show award w...
09/05/2026

It was a real highlight to be invited into this truly stunning Gold, Environmentally Innovative and Best in Show award winning garden 'ONE' designed by the very wonderful , built by .paving along with a brilliant team. Thank you Ian.

It is such a privilege to talk to a designer to learn about their concept, which here is to provide a nurturing space for both plants and personal wellbeing for people who both live and garden alone, there are 8 million in the UK. It's a calm, restorative and creative space. The fern growing out of a circular space cut into the seating area to offer companionship to the solo gardener really got me, such a well considered thought as is the overall planting and wildlife areas.

Heartfelt and beautifully crafted, a real triumph ✨️
shows

05/05/2026

Bursting with pride ✨️

I wanted to wish a huge thanks and congratulations to my good friend and very talented garden designer . I am super proud of what you have achieved with your creation 'Life on the Land' for the RHS Malvern show and am thankful to have been able to support you on this incredible ride and be involved as one of your sponsors 💚

Whatever happens with judging you have designed and with a small army of friends created a beautifully planted garden that will inspire many many people attending the Malvern Show this week.

Be proud of you ✨️

And to all involved in the show whether designing and building a blooming border or show garden, supporting those who have and to exhibitors and everyone visiting, it's going to be an epic show this year, hope you are able to visit 🙌

25/04/2026

Rockery project

Great client project undertaken this week on a steep incline that had become hidden beneath planting. I removed as much perennial w**d with the roots as possible, cut back the saxifraga carpet, split sedum, took control of the ajuga and relocated armeria 🌸 all to reveal the rocks and steps beneath ✨️

Turned out really well, clients are super happy, I'll be back next month to add Summer flowering alpine plants and it was a great workout in too!

Really happy with this project, thanks to my lovely clients for inviting me to work on this, the view from the was spectacular👌

22/04/2026

I am working on a clients steep rockery this week, a stunning setting though challenging due to the incline and the stepping stones not being fixed so having to be careful with every step I take.

Due to its steep nature my clients who are evidently keen gardeners and had created this beautiful planting space have been unable to tend this rockery for some time, which has given way to bind w**d, mares tail, ground elder, nettles and unwanted ferns growing on deep rhizomes to take hold.

Without fully stripping the rocks and soil out these little 'joys' will make a comeback but having spent time removing as much of the root as possible when they do it will be in less strength, I have been asked to maintain this space going forward so will get them out when they do.

By my sympathetically stripping back the overgrown fauna, revealing one rock at a time its allowing for the much loved plants such as saxifraga, ajuga, sedum, dianthus, armeria and phlox to shine once more in their own space.

I will be returning in May to add Summer flowering ground cover plants into the mix, for now one more day today of stripping back and revealing the rocks beneath. I'll post the before versus after soon.

A lovely job for wonderful clients and one that is proving very rewarding 💚 Please do get in touch if you are looking to take back your garden.

Had the absolute pleasure of helping a lovely client get her dreamy vegetable garden grow ready for the 2026 season.Grow...
18/04/2026

Had the absolute pleasure of helping a lovely client get her dreamy vegetable garden grow ready for the 2026 season.

Growing food is a passion of mine so being offered the opportunity to work for a day in this beautiful space at the end of my clients garden, which needed w**ding and a fresh application of rich mulch (2 tonnes) and wood chip to the paths was a real delight.

Sometimes life throws us curveballs and garden jobs you can usually cope with can seem out of reach whether temporarily or otherwise, this is where I can help.

If you require some garden assistance or you are interested in growing food in your garden please get in touch, I'd love to help!

DM me or email: [email protected]

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