Kensington and Chelsea

Benedict Bull holds a graduate degree from the Department of Architecture in the University of Edinburgh and a Horticultural Diploma from the Merrist Wood College. He has been working and developing his practice as a landscape gardener for 20 years, honours include a botanical scholarship to Il Giardino Botanico Hanbury with the University of Genoa, and two award winning garden rehabilitation programmes for the Aga Khan Trust for Culture in the Baghe Babur in Kabul and the Shigar Fort garden in Skardu.

His career began in landscape design, planning and management in the UK and Ireland, specialising in racing stud farms and large private estates and pleasure gardens. He has consulted on a wide range of landscape design and conservation projects in Afghanistan, Bulgaria, England, France, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Mongolia, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan. He has made seven plant hunting treks in the Hindu-Kush, Himalaya, and Karakorum.

He was gardening correspondent for Scotland on Sunday for 2 years whilst living in Edinburgh. He researched and presented 2 short films on plant hunting in Pakistan and the Gardens of Uzbekistan. He has lectured at the Smithsonaian Institution for the Harvard Trustees and Dumbarton Oaks.