ABOUT KATE

Kate Elysee Garden Design and Build commenced in 1999. 

Since then, Kate has built up a discerning business working with both the commercial and private sectors, producing prestigious gardens in Sandbanks, and the Canford Cliff areas of Bournemouth and Poole as well as gardens in the Purbecks where she now lives. Kate offers a variety of services including; consultations, garden design, garden build, and bespoke design for lightning and water.

Based in Swanage, Dorset, Kate as a designer has won various awards from Poole Borough Council for commercial projects, taken part in Art in the Garden for Dorset Arts Week and has had two designs published in the book “Success with Mediterranean Gardens”.

She trained horticulturally with the Women Returners to Garden Scheme and obtained formal design qualification at Kingston Maurward College in Dorchester, Dorset. Working in the private sector as a gardener for the Countess of Lichfield in Cranborne, and Steeple Manor in Kimmeridge, Dorset.

Kate is now a skilled horticulturalists and Designer, creating contemporary, classic and bespoke gardens