A relaxed planting scheme against a formal ground plan creates a relaxing garden

About Us

Founded and led by Matthew Haddon MBALI MSGD, Haddon Studio is a design practice with a reputation for creating sustainable, ecologically-considered gardens, where biodiversity and doing what is best for the planet are the guiding principles.   

Strongly influenced by both contemporary and classic landscape design, we are garden designers based in Yorkshire who create contemporary gardens, naturalistically planted, where people and wildlife co-exist.

At its heart:

  • We create exquisitely detailed, planted, and finished gardens and landscapes

  • We produce outdoor spaces that encourage reflection, enriching the lives of all who enter the space, through their elegant simplicity

  • We design biodiverse landscapes for people and wildlife

  • We embrace a natural disorder within clear structural frameworks

Choosing to work with us means that:

  • You can have absolute confidence in the quality and creativity of our work

  • We have the skills and expertise to solve your issues and find solutions for any problem areas you have

  • We are environmentally responsible, with a clear focus on sustainability throughout all project stages

  • Our gardens promote wellbeing and create spaces for quiet contemplation

  • Although no garden can ever be no maintenance our approach means that gardens and landscapes require less intensive maintenance than more traditional landscapes.

A wildflower meadow will maximise biodiversity in the garden

Our Process

A modern and low maintenance outdoor room

We take a holistic approach to all our designs, offering a comprehensive landscape and garden design service from concept to completion.

Our process includes:

  •  Working with you to understand your requirements and the capabilities of your garden or landscape

  • Creating a concept plan, to help you visualise how your finished garden will look

  • Creating a masterplan, to set the intentions for the development of the whole site

  • Planting design and selection, the heart of any landscape and essential to our plant-focussed design process

Bumblebee and Allium in a Yorkshire garden

  • Preparation of technical detailing, specifications and schedules, so that your garden or landscape can be built to plan

  • Preparation of tender documentation, to enable landscape contractors to provide accurate quotes

  • Help with planning enquiries and permissions, where required

  • Regular project inspection, to ensure the garden or landscape is built to plan

  • Sourcing plants, to ensure quality of your investment

  • Preparation of management and maintenance plans, so that you can move forwards with confidence once we leave

  • Aftercare consultancy visits, if you require a little more help

You can prepare for working with a garden designer by looking out our ‘Ultimate Guide to Working with a Garden Designer’

Our Team

Your garden design team at Haddon Studio

Based in Yorkshire, we work right across the UK and internationally, with projects ranging in size and complexity from large country gardens to small courtyard designs.

A creative, forward-thinking, and progressive studio we have embraced a flexible working culture to ensure we employ the best and most talented designers wherever they are based, focusing on the continuing development and well-being of our whole team.

Underpinning our commitment to design quality and biodiverse design, Matthew is creatively involved with every project and at every stage of the design process.

Headshot of landscape and garden designer Matthew Haddon MSGD

MATTHEW HADDON MSGD MBALI

CREATIVE DIRECTOR

Matthew is a Registered Member of the Society of Garden Designers (one of around 200 accredited garden designers in the UK) and is a member of the SGD’s governing Council. He is also an Accredited Designer with the British Association of Landscape Industries, a Registered Designer with the Association of Professional Landscapers, and a full member of the Chartered Institute of Horticulture.

He won a Gold Award at the Harrogate Flower Show in 2014, a Silver Gilt in 2017, and a Silver Gilt Medal at the RHS Flower Show Tatton Park in 2018. Since 2023 he has judged the Show Gardens at the Harrogate Spring Flower Show.

Nicoletta - landscape architect at Haddon Studio

NICOLETTA MATTEAZZI (MArch) 

SENIOR LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT

Nicoletta trained as an Architect in both Italy and Switzerland, before moving to London to study Garden Design at the Inchbald School of Design, graduating with a distinction.

Having worked for some of the most prestigious firms in London, she joined Haddon Studio in 2021, working in the beautiful setting of the Prosecco Hills, a few miles from Venice.

In 2019, she won four awards at the international garden design competition in Cernobbio, Italy.