Chelsea-winning designer Charlotte Harris has been confirmed as the latest Gardens Illustrated contributing editor, joining the expert panel that helps to direct and advise the magazine’s editorial team, as well as writing features and columns.
Landscape designer Charlotte co-founded values-driven landscape design practice Harris Bugg Studio with Hugo Bugg in 2017. She has won three Gold Medals at RHS Chelsea Flower Show, and Best Show Garden in 2023 with Horatio’s Garden, and has been called a “pioneering design talent” by the RHS. Charlotte also guest lectures, writes on design and planting, and is a vocal advocate of better representation and diversity in the sector.
Gardens Illustrated’s other contributing editors include designers Dan Pearson, James Basson and Sarah Price, Great Dixter head gardener Fergus Garrett and garden writer Anna Pavord, who has been on the panel since the magazine first launched 30 years ago.
Charlotte said: “Gardens Illustrated is a bible and looking back in the studio library, my first of many much-thumbed copies was over 18 years ago. I don’t think much could top being asked to write the iconic annual GI Top 100 Plants special a couple of years ago! To be joining such a significant publication, alongside my own design and planting icons as fellow contributors is an absolute honour."
Editor Stephanie Mahon said: “We have collaborated closely with Charlotte in recent years on projects including her top 100 plants, several Harris Bugg garden features, opinion pieces and her guest spot on our Talking Gardens podcast, and we are delighted to welcome her into the team. She is so creative, articulate and insightful, I am confident her influence and ideas will be instrumental in continuing to develop the brand in the right direction, and I’m looking forward to working with her.”
Look out for more from Charlotte in the magazine and online in the coming months. Subscribe to Gardens Illustrated so you never miss an issue.
Be sure to have a listen to the Talking Gardens podcast to hear more from Charlotte.