About me

Ruth Marshall is one of the founders and Directors of the CGLA group of companies, which includes the Design and Project management business, CGLA, as well as Cool Gardens Landscaping and Cool Gardens Maintenance. As a designer, Ruth’s colleagues and clients value her not only for her 25 years of great design experience and extensive planting knowledge, but also for her ability to tease out of clients what it is that will work for them in a design.

Gardening expertise

Professional

Gardening interests

Biggest gardening accomplishments

Amongst a host of other medals and awards, Ruth is perhaps most proud of having achieved the coveted RHS Gold medal at RHS Hampton Court. Not only did Ruth design this garden, but she and Vicki designed, sourced and personally planted the entire piece, working alongside the fantastic CGLA construction team- leading to its being crowned “Best Summer Garden” at a special awards ceremony.

Biggest gardening frustrations

Plants have not read the books and don't always thrive where they “should” or do as we want them to!

The gardening project I am currently working on

I am involved in multiple projects at different stages of development from concept design through to construction and maintenance