Award-winning garden designer
Robert Myers is one of the UK’s leading garden designers whose elegant, timeless style is inspired by characteristics of materials and plants, of history and place.
His work explores the relationship between the formal and informal, and draws inspiration from both the architectural and natural world.
Robert gained a degree in Geography from Cambridge University.
From Cambridge, Robert launched himself straight into a postgraduate diploma in Landscape Architecture at the University of Central England while also working at the Landscape Partnership in London’s Docklands.
Major Projects
In 1993 he joined Elizabeth Banks Associates in London. His first major project was with the new Wellcome Trust Genome Campus at Hinxton Hall where he worked on the masterplan and detailed design for a new laboratory and conference centre set in historic parklands near Cambridge.
His recent projects have included the Duke of York Square on the King’s Road, including the new Saatchi Gallery and new public spaces at Southwark Cathedral. He has designed gardens and courtyards for several Cambridge colleges and the University, a new public garden at Torrington Square in Bloomsbury, a new formal garden at Tregothnan in Cornwall, and a landscape strategy for The Backs in Cambridge. Robert is currently working on a new city square and park at Cambridge Railway Station, major landscape projects at Hereford and Exeter Cathedrals, a new rose garden at the RHS Gardens, Wisley, as well as gardens and landscapes for private clients across the UK and abroad.
Chelsea Flower Show Gardens
Robert designed the Cancer Research UK garden at Chelsea Flower Show for the first time in 2009, winning both a Silver-Gilt medal and the much-coveted People’s Choice Award for Favourite Show Garden, voted for by the public. In 2010, Robert won a gold medal for his Cancer Research UK garden with the theme ‘Enlighten’. Previous awards at Chelsea include Gold medals with the Sir Hans Sloane Garden (2003), the Costiera dei Fiori Garden (2006), the Fortnum & Mason Garden (2007) and a Cadogan Garden in 2008.