About Nick
Nick is a garden designer & garden consultant for private clients in Wales. He specialises in garden planting design & consultancy, while overseeing your garden build. He has additional expertise in terrestrial & aquatic ecology at degree level.
He creates bespoke tailored gardens for private clients incorporating his expertise in ecology, design & horticulture. Nick oversees your project planning and creation, through to the aftercare.
An ecological element to his planting design aims to benefit wildlife. The team focus on sustainability, with a mission to incorporate fine garden aesthetics while creating areas for wildlife to thrive.
He enjoys writing poetry, hiking, and water sports.
Background
Nick grew up in Pembrokeshire, Wales, spending his childhood in the garden digging up the roses or rummaging in a celtic rainforest at the back of the house. Not realising the garden vocation until later life, he pursued his passion for ecology and biology through academia.
He began considering the garden as a career on permaculture farms in Wales and later Aberglasney gardens. Now, with a decade of experience in horticulture, he has founded Cambrica® to design and create gardens for clients in Wales.
Experience
Nicks experience in horticulture includes four years developing garden skills (Aberglasney heritage gardens: 2016-2020), RHS Level 3 modules, permaculture farming (Glasbren: 2017- 2021), plant nursery work within one of the largest plant catalogues in Wales (Farmyard Nurseries: 2019-2024), and private client garden work.
He has experience in garden landscape design & planting design for your projects, with additional in the field experience of landscaping processes, for creating your garden.
In 2022 Nick attended the RHS Hampton Court garden festival with Sue Kent (Gardeners World) ‘Knolling with Daisy’s garden as an assistant. The garden achieved multiple awards.
Ecology
His experience in ecology includes subjects from plant biology, grassland ecology, both terrestrial & aquatic ecosystems, toxicology, and much more. He has undertaken fieldwork in the UK, South Africa, Honduras, and Europe. He graduated with a degree in marine biology & ecology – achieving an upper 2:1 (hons) with a distinction dissertation grade in developmental biology. His project encompassed pond wildlife (and the subsequent co-authored paper was reviewed by the Royal Society Publishers London, in 2011).
Events
Nick was the event organiser for ‘For The Love of Nature’ event at the National Botanic Gardens in Wales in 2022; the event had a 1,000 person attendance and 35 stall holders to raise money for MIND charity.
Nick has a lifelong passion for natural history and design. Occasional writer with a love for poetry, he is a keen swimmer, surfer, fisherman, aquascape-creator (aquarium designer). He is happiest when on a boat out at sea or in forests and wild landscapes.
Nicks Poetry
“Atlantic seas to Celtic green, we shall not fail the forest stream. From sapphire shores to mountain tops, through emerald forest, to valley copse. Meadows of old, worthy of gold, stone carved rings, the symbols it sings. For old times sake let us wake of soulful rivers for our good ache.”
Stanza from ‘The Golden Feathers’
By Nick Anthony2024 The Garden Cambrica ©
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