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The garden of landscape architect Stefano Marinaz in Essex.

The recent Garden and Landscape Designers Association (GLDA) international seminar in Dublin was once more a treat for anyone with more than a passing interest in our landscape and the environment in which we all live and work.

Stefano Marinaz a leading landscape architect with offices in both London and Utecht and currently managing projects all over Britain, Italy and the Netherlands showed us around some of his recent projects and one which captured my attention in particular was a garden which he calls “New Beginnings” in Essex.