IONA HILLEARY

Iona grew up in north-east Scotland. She had her first taste of landscape architecture in 1988 working for a practice in Sydney. Following a degree in French and Russian from Bristol University and six years in the City, she returned to her earlier interest and decided to re-train to for 2 years. She studied Plantsmanship and Practical Horticulture at the Chelsea Physic Garden and then took a post-graduate diploma in Garden Design at the Inchbald School of Design. For 3 years she was secretary of the Chelsea Gardens Guild. Iona enjoys the elements of spatial design and the mathematical challenges particularly of resolving level issues.  She has a personal taste for natural materials, simplicity of design and purity of concept.


YASEMIN OZKAN-SHIRES

Born in Istanbul, Yasemin has found varied inspiration from experience working in the Mediterranean, UK and USA.  From a family of architects and painters an inherent artistic background led to formal training as a landscape architect in Turkey, and latterly in residential garden design at the Oxford College of Garden Design where she obtained a first-class postgraduate degree.  Her personal philosophy has been influenced by the writings on Individualism by Ayn Rand in ‘The Fountainhead’.  Technical knowledge has been honed with previous jobs such as overseeing the design and construction of a 5km2 military training centre and advising on landscape masterplans, infrastructure issues and building a 10,000m2 nursery for a resort development company.  Yasemin is now a Licentiate member of the British Landscape Institute.

 

ADDRESS Scaryside, Kingstone Warren, Wantage, OX12 9QF, UK     PHONE +44 (0)1367 820 868     EMAIL info@ionahilleary.com

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IAIN HILLEARY

Iain is a full-time gardener and plantsman who developed his passion for plants gardening from the Outer Hebrides to the Home Counties. He spent 10 years involved with food - buying and selling lobsters, managing restaurants and cooking professionally before returning to his early love of the garden. Iain was partly brought up in Northumberland and the Hebrides. It was the beautiful and unique Hebridean machair that inspired a particular fascination with wild flowers and thereafter their cultivated cousins in the herbaceous border. Iain’s practical involvement with some of our more local projects provides the core horticultural knowledge that is essential to the realistic creation and ongoing development of our gardens.