DOWN TO EARTH

Bridget Elworthy and Henrietta Courtauld are evangelists for soil health and the benefits of composting. They tell Ciar Byrne about their new book and how you can ensure you have a healthy heap.

Award winning design team Bridget Elworthy and Henrietta Courtauld, aka The Land Gardeners, founded their studio to research plant and soil health through growing. Now they are sharing their knowledge in two new courses, hosted by the online Create Academy. A Year of Cut Flowers (£127 for lifetime access) and How to Heal Your Soil (£79 for lifetime access).

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Compost ‘grows such sweet things out of such corruptions’

As Walt Whitman recognised, a well-tended compost heap is a magical, sustainable thing. - by Jane Owen

The Compost Fighting Climate Change

by Anna-Marie Julyan

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Gifts for Gardeners - The Land Gardeners Create Academy A Year of Cut Flowers Course is listed among the best gifts for gardeners.

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Five Good Things: What to do, visit, read and book this December.

The Land Gardeners A Year of Cut Flowers Course at Create Academy is among the five!

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“You Can Fall In Love With Your Garden All Year Round.”

As they launch a new online gardening course, The Land Gardeners tell Jessica Doyle about the joys of a never-ending cutting garden.

How to Force Bulbs with The Land Gardeners

Forcing bulbs is a wonderful way to bring colour and scent inside in the dark winter months.

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Sam and Sam Clark the couple behind Moro and Morito restaurants share their passions.

“THE LAST THING WE BOUGHT AND LOVED was Soil to Table by Henrietta Courtauld and Bridget Elworthy (AKA The Land Gardeners). They’ve studied soil regeneration for 20 years, and along with recipes for yummy things they’ve got one for the perfect compost. It’s fascinating. We try to use as much waste from the restaurants on compost as possible, so it’s been very useful.”

Nurturing The Land

The role that soil health plays in the health of plants and the planet cannot be underestimated - Henrietta Courtauld and Bridget Elworthy of The Land Gardeners explain the connection.

12 Gardening Rules with The Land Gardeners

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Feature article on Soil to Table book by food editor Blanche Vaughan

The Land Gardeners speak at The Chelsea Barracks as part of the Chelsea Flower Show.

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The Land Gardeners on How Compost Can Combat Climate Change

In her new series, Clare Foster meets people who are passionate about saving the planet. This month, she talks to The Land Gardeners about their ground-breaking Climate Compost initiative

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In our series on gardening in style, we’re asking some of our favourite garden people, “What do you wear to garden, and why?” Our latest contributors are Henrietta Courtauld and Bridget Elworthy, aka The Land Gardeners.

Henrietta and Bridget established The Land Gardeners to research plant and soil health through growing, cutting and designing. The mission of The Land Gardeners is to work with gardeners and farmers to improve the health of our land – creating beautiful, healthy plants, gardens, and farms brimming with biodiversity and life – all founded on healthy soil.

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The winners of the 2021 House & Garden awards revealed.

The Land Gardeners win - Responsible Designer Award

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The Land Gardeners give step by step instructions on how to make compost without a compost heap.

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“The following are 10 of the most influential floral designers on the contemporary international scene, whose social profiles are worth a look at every so often for a shot of beauty and natural decor inspiration.”

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The Land Gardeners are so pleased to be included in Country Life’s - The Best Garden Designers and Landscapers in Britain!

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Flower Magazine online - Fresh Features

The Land Gardeners Cut Flowers is on the list of Flower Magazine’s favourite books of 2020.

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Bridget Elworthy and Henrietta Courtauld's book is filled with effortlessly gorgeous arrangements and features an informative guide on unique varieties to grow in your garden. This is sure to be one of your plant lover's favourite coffee table books.

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How to Improve Soil Health

The Land Gardeners Arts and Crafts Garden Around Wardington Manor

by Robin Powell

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Microbial Love: An Earthy Chat With the Land Gardeners

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WEDDING SOS: How to Have An Eco-Friendly Wedding

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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." 

"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

"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."

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.

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"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."

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)

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The English Garden - January 2015

Country Life Magazine - October 2014