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Landscape designer James Alexander-Sinclair has overseen the development of this Cotswold hilltop garden for 12 years, making the most of the panoramic view..

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Landscape designer James Alexander-Sinclair has overseen the development of this Cotswold hilltop garden for 12 years, making the most of the panoramic view.

Renowned garden designer, award-winning writer and frequent broadcaster, James Alexander-Sinclair, is set to host the Festival Theatre on Thurs 9 & Fri 10 May.

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James Alexander-Sinclair

James Alexander-Sinclair – rather like a careless tightrope walker – stumbled into gardening from cocktail shaking, being Father Christmas and the more scurrilous end of journalism by accident nearly twenty years ago.

Beginning in London he set up Terra Firma Landscapes which, after six years of laying lawns, building walls and moving barrow loads of earth around, he sold in order to move his family to Northamptonshire.

At the same time, he progressed to the less muddy end of gardening by developing the design side of the business.

Since then, he has made many truly delicious gardens throughout Britain ranging from small patches in cities to rolling acres in the countryside.

Along the way he designed the medal-winning “Horticouture” garden at the 1999 Chelsea Flower Show for Express Newspapers.

Recently he has returned to journalism. His easy, slightly irreverent style makes him an excellent communicator and he has the ability to