Melissa Jolly, Sustainability focused garden designer

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Melissa Jolly is an award winning garden designer who specialises in, and is passionate about, creating beautiful, functional and ecological spaces where people and nature can both thrive.

We met in Melissa’s garden late last year and had a wonderful chat, surrounded by her chickens, about many subjects including - but in no particular order:

  • Rewilding and Climate Change

  • Melissa’s connection with the land and love of nature and wildlife and how this plays into her work and day to day self-care.

  • Perfectionism and ‘good enough’

  • Self sufficiency and being an ‘Early Adopter’

  • Flight of the Osprey and her involvement in the campaign

  • Naturalistic planting

  • The balance of career and motherhood

  • Living next door to your parents

  • Making your working life working for you

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