Claire Hawker is an active Dublin Garden Designer in Ireland who is a qualified horticulturist and has been working as a garden designer for over 25 years.  

As a Garden Designer, Claire has a wealth of practical experience and has designed many beautiful gardens from small townhouse patios to larger rural landscapes in the Dublin, Wicklow and throughout Ireland.

Each garden brings its own challenges and opportunities with no two gardens ever the  same.    Experience of what materials are available, what plants would work best in each garden and how to bring interest and beauty into your garden are all brought to bear on each design.    Claire prides herself in listening to her Client’s needs, wants and dislikes, which coupled with her analysis of their gardens positive and negative aspects can transform even the most difficult garden into a garden to be proud of.

Claire, as a Garden Designer in Dublin, provides excellent value,  great service and beautiful designs.   Check out the Garden Design Ideas and Garden Transformation pages on this site to see examples of her work.

Before Becoming a Garden Designer

Before training in Horticulture,  Claire had previously qualified with a degree in Physics and Chemistry and worked as a telecommunications engineer in eircom.     After leaving eircom, she returned to study and then set up her own business as a Garden Designer operating in Dublin, Wicklow and Ireland.   She brings this technical background and business experience to all her projects producing creative Garden Design Plans with professionally finished working garden design plans and documentation.

Claire has two children and lives with her husband, David who works with her in the business.   When not working as a Garden Designer, her hobbies including Gardening (of course!), swimming and reading.

See also our sister company www.willowgardendesign.ie