who i am

Alys Francis, trained as a landscape architect to masters level with 20 years plus working with the planted landscape through gardening and landscape &planting design. 

what i do 

Landscape design, planting design, land management and nature restoration. I visualise the potentials of a place from a small garden scale to landscape scale. 

Stage 1, starting with a brief, designing and working towards a vision for the future

Stage 2 developing this design/ vision with you the client(s) 

Stage 3 is implementation. 

Important for the integrity of a project is seeing the process all the way through to the final stage of planting, whether as a supervisor with contractors or volunteers or planting myself. 

I am currently focused on habitat creation and looking at productive landscapes in a rural context, & in an urban context with public planting schemes. The best results come, in my experience, with a deeper engagement with all that makes a project, hence often being taken down research avenues; finding a unique angle, with a goal of creating a place that some how glows.  

my values

My values are all around restoring a gentle relation between humankind and the rest of the natural world. No chemicals, no invasive technologies, no heavy machinary. I purposefully keep my fees to a minimum as my intention is to be affordable for all. Collaborations produce some of the most wonderful outcomes, with clients, with contractors, crafts people, fellow plants people... and on

making contact

Please feel free to make any enquiries to alysfrancis@protonmail.com

Collaborations, ideas for projects, requests for assistance.