Designer

Best New Show Garden team Gardening Scotland 2012. Jayne with Murray Parsons and David Sinclair of Greenlands Gardens.

Designer Jayne Whitehead, BSC (Hons), RHS Cert Hort (Commendation)

Jayne studied horticulture and garden history at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh and has a particular interest in Period Gardens, working with the National Trust for Scotland and owners of Period Homes great and small.

Jayne’s horticultural career began as a gardener and her designs remain full of the vitality plants. Jayne was awarded the Royal Horticultural Society Centenary Prize in 2006. Ivy Maud Design was established in 2008 and has gone onto to be selected for the Avant Gardens Festival and to win awards for two prestigious gardens at Gardening Scotland; designed for Macmillan Cancer Support and Poppy Scotland.

Designer in the Community

Community gardening is a real passion and Ivy Maud Design supports a number of school and nursery garden projects. Jayne was the founding chair of a local allotments group and volunteers as a community orchards advisor passing on her knowledge from her training by Forth Valley Orchards.

Ivy Maud Design is also a huge admirer of Dartington Landworks, a fantastic new project based in Devon. Dartington Landworks gives prisoners and ex-prisoners a way to work towards a different life though real hands on landscape construction. Find out more here…

Jayne with Norman Muir, chair of the West of Scotland Dry Stone Walling Association receiving one of the awards for the Ivy Maud Design 2014 Show Garden at Gardening Scotland.

Jayne Whitehead has a professional background in Health and Safety including 10 years experience with HSE and a post graduate diploma in health and safety.

Ivy Maud Design holds Public Liability Indemnity Insurance.

Our Clients Say....

"I cannot thank Jayne enough for her advice and help, planning my 3 acres of walled garden. She listened to the flowers I liked and the colours I wanted, and with great consideration of the position of the garden and the soil, came up with what is turning out to be a perfect design. Every tree and shrub is happy in its situation, and in a few years time I will have a lovely colourful, easily maintained garden. I could not have managed it all without her, and she was a pleasure to work with."

- Maureen Jessetts

"Jayne planned a garden exactly to our specification, using existing materials and providing us with a low maintenance garden in sympathy with the house. She provided excellent planting notes and guidance on follow up care of the garden. So much so, that she has also designed our back garden at the Bank House and hopefully will be planning another garden for us in our new house."

- John and Carol Pease, Blackford

Dear Jayne, Thank you so much for your thoughtful and creative design work in our front garden – we love it! We feel very blessed indeed.

- Jane and Kevin, Stirling

Jayne’s design provided the framework which has transformed an arid stretch of tarmac into a small and intimate garden that, still in its first year, has given us endless pleasure and interest.

- Private client, Doune

Jayne is an instinctive garden designer. Her natural sense of design and abundant horticultural knowledge combines perfectly with a strong practical sense. We now have a garden that all six of us delight in and our visitor’s exclaim at.

- Iona Leishman, Dunblane

“We are all delighted with the new garden. We used to be embarrassed by the garden and overwhelmed by the work it needed, but now we are really proud of it. Everyone in the family uses the garden much more now, and our daughter wants to play outside all the time.”

- Francesca Tellini

“Jayne has created a lovely garden from a sea of mud and builders' rubble. It meets our requirements for something easy to maintain. The garden sits well in our country setting and compliments our house beautifully. All in all we are quite thrilled with Jayne and her team's work and are looking forward to sitting outside taking in our stunning new surroundings.”

- Eleanor and Bill Wilson, Aberfeldy

"Jayne has created a lovely garden from a sea of mud and builders’ rubble. The garden sits well in our country house setting and compliments our house beautifully. It also meets our requirements for something easy to maintain. All in all we are thrilled with Jayne and her team’s work and are looking forward to sitting taking in our stunning new surroundings."

- Bill and Eleanor Wilson, Aberfeldy

“Jayne is an instinctive garden designer. Her natural sense of design and abundant horticultural knowledge combines perfectly with a strong practical sense. We now have a garden that all six of us delight in and our visitors exclaim at.”

- Iona Leishman