Episode 32 | Designing Gardens That Work For Real Life with Lee from Bestall & Co Landscape Design

Well, I

think one of the best parts of the story that you've told there is that the fact that you've been told... no, this isn't for you.

You can't do that.

Why do

people do that? Exactly.

I think we've talked about it in the past, about schooling and you get put into boxes of wherever they think you should be at this present moment in time.

And it's all to do with curriculums that they have to meet.

But you going beyond that, I'm thinking, yeah, I'm going to try something else because I think, actually... you or somebody else realizing this isn't for you.

It's a great part of the story to sort of like, just whatever you feel that you are aligned to, then go for that and do that.

You know, and it's, it's one of the great parts of a lot of people's story within the business and not just their passion as well and again you've said that you've fallen out of love with it fallen back in love with it but i think that you could quite honestly say that your passion is your business which is a very lucky not lucky i don't like using the word look it's a fortunate situation for you to be in because i believe you make your own look within life within business yeah but for you to be able to sort of do that as part of your day-to-day life and actually love what you're doing must be a great position for you to be in

yeah it is and it's it's not great for business a lot of the time because a lot of the decisions i make are based on because i want to design something specific or i really get i really really get into people's psyche so one of the things i love and i think which makes us very different is i really get to the bottom of what someone's problem is yeah so when they come to us and say i want a patio i'm like you don't really want a patio You want to create this moment or you want safety for your kids.

And I've got into situations where I feel like a marriage counsellor.

And a couple are arguing over lavender, but they've never discussed lavender in 23 years of marriage.

So it's like getting to that real root of what's wrong.

And sometimes they hate the house.

Yeah.

And I had a client last year who literally, they just cried and said, I absolutely can't stand living in this house.

And they'd never told the partner.

Wow,

okay.

And there was this whole thing, and Harvey was with me, our social media guy, and it was just this really... weird situation so we left them to it for an hour came back and we were like okay let's design the house and so um we actually redesigned the back of the house as well as the as well as the garden and that's something that I've started to do a lot of we call it our whole home because it like it

connect everything connects so yeah it's really important yeah yeah that's been that's

kind of my next passion project I think that redesigning the facade of the house extensions knocking through the way that you live as well as the garden to incorporate everything into one thing and we offer that as part of so we go and spend a day with the client and really get to know them and observe how they cook and all this kind of stuff and it that's it's really really fun That's

so interesting.