Julian Bannerman

• 1992 Europa Nostra Heritage Award for Waddesdon Manor[2]
• 1993 Civic Trust Award for Waddesdon Manor
• Gold Medal at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 1994.[3]
• 1997 Royal Warrant awarded by the Prince of Wales.[4]
• 2007 Christie's Garden of the Year Award for Houghton Hall.[5]
• 2008 Carpenters Guild Award for Arundel Castle Collector Earl’s Garden[6]
• In 2010 the Bannermans along with public garden designer Lynden Miller completed the Queen Elizabeth II September 11th Garden, located in Hanover Square in the Financial District of New York City.[7] It commemorates the 67 British victims of the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center. Queen Elizabeth II attended the opening on July 6, 2010.[8]

Julian studied fine art at Oxford Ruskin School of Art and in the 1970s, he worked for Richard Demarco on Edinburgh Arts and in the Demarco Gallery.[9] He met his wife Isabel in Edinburgh in the early 1980's and together they ran Bannerman's Bar before buying a semi derelict Wiltshire mansion called the Ivy, where they explored their mutual passion for building restoration and garden design.[10]

In 1989 the Bannermans were invited to design a modern grotto and hermitage at Leeds Castle in Kent. This led to their first major commission by Jacob Rothschild to design a water garden and grotto at Waddesdon Manor. Their work there won Civic Trust and Europa Nostra awards which skyrocketed their career. Following that they were commissioned to create a stumpery at Highgrove House by King Charles in the late 1990s.[11]

Their rejuvenation of the five-acre walled garden at the Marquess of Cholmondeley’s Houghton Hall was another award winning project.[12]

The Bannermans sold the Ivy in 1993 and moved to Hanham Court near Bristol, where they restored the court and created a garden open to the public.[13] In 2001 they were commissioned by Jigsaw founder John Robinson to design and develop the garden at Euridge Manor Farm in Wiltshire, now sought after as a wedding and party place.[14] They were subsequently commissioned by the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk to create "The Collector Earl’s Garden” at Arundel Castle in Sussex.[15]

The Bannermans moved on to Trematon Castle in 2012, leased from the Duchy of Cornwall and another spectacular garden was created in the grounds, which included a medieval keep.[16] The couple also designed the garden at Wormsley Park, Buckinghamshire for John Paul Getty II[17] and have played a major role in redesigning the gardens of Dumfries House in Ayrshire.[18]

In 2019, they moved to Ashington Manor in Somerset, which is also being renovated and improved with a newly created garden and orchards.[19]