Garden Ninja Garden Design is based in the North West of England covering Manchester, Liverpool, Southport and Cheshire providing spectacular garden design services. Lee Burkhill is an award-winning Garden blogger, a presenter on Garden Rescue and runs his popular gardening YouTube channel.
Lee Burkhill is a multi-award-winning garden designer, horticultural expert, Garden Blogger, Vlogger, TV Presenter and world-famous YouTuber! Lee comes from the North West of England and has an infectious enthusiasm for helping gardeners all over the world.
As a gardening expert, Lee Burkhill aims to demystify gardening and design to help younger gardeners green up their outside spaces. Lee uses his YouTube video guides, online gardening forum and award-winning blog to share all his gardening knowledge so anyone can garden.
If you haven’t seen the Garden Ninja’s famous YouTube channel for gardening guides, then check that out! You can even train as a garden designer with his online Beginner Gardening Courses.
Garden Ninja is a garden design business and online gardening blog & video resource created and run by Lee Burkhill.
Lee wanted to create a gardening community where everyone could learn how to garden. No matter how little experience. The Garden Ninja blog and forum help gardeners all over the world troubleshoot and design their own urban spaces.
Lee has a unique problem-solving skill set that means he can design truly beautiful and functional wildlife-friendly garden spaces. His horticulture, design and project management knowledge make him the ideal candidate to help you get the garden space of your dreams.
Lee Burkhill studied Horticulture with the RHS at Edinburgh Botanical gardens and has designed hundreds of urban gardens. He also has over 35 years of hands-on gardening experience.
Lee worked in IT as a project manager for 12 years before making the jump to a career as a garden designer and has never looked back.
Lee specialises in wildlife-friendly gardens and uses a plant-rich approach to his design. His innovative designs are known for their quirky layouts and for engaging their owners to get their hands dirty!
Lee Burkhill is an accomplished public speaker on gardening topics and has spoken for the RHS, giving talks on garden design and also their school gardening projects.
He has also been one of the expert panellists on BBC Radio Manchester’s Saturday morning garden show. Recently, Lee has been voted one of the Top 10 Gardening Bloggers and Garden Vloggers in the UK. Watch one of his videos below to find out why!
Lee Burkhil – the Garden Ninja – is one of the main presenters on BBC1’s Garden Rescue.
He regularly teams up with Charlie Dimmock to compete to makeover unloved gardens in the UK. His popular YouTube channel provides free gardening guides to his army of Ninja followers.
Lee has worked on Series 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 of Garden Rescue and brings his fresh approach to explaining the ‘why’ behind garden design principles and horticulture. In Series 7, Lee also teams up with Chris Hull and Flo Headlam as they battle it out to win garden designs for contributors in need of a garden makeover in the UK.
Having been a Senior (Prince Practitioner Certified) Project Manager in IT for 12 years, Lee had become frustrated with working on goliaths of slow-rumbling projects. Lee Burkhill yearned to unleash his hidden creative side; even having to subdue his mohawk into a more acceptable hairstyle for work was a daily struggle.
Gardening had always been his retreat and passion. After one particularly gruelling project in 2015, Lee thought enough is enough, ‘I need more meaning in my working life’.
Lee knew that these project management skills would put him in good standing. Lee is also a big believer in making life less complicated. Lee combines project management with his vast horticulture knowledge to provide you with the best garden design options on time, on budget, and without any fuss.
Lee believes that anything is possible when designing gardens. Whether you want calm, tranquillity or exciting drama, let Garden Ninja transform your garden, balcony or paved plot into a room you never knew you could have.
Lee Burkhill’s design style focuses on the garden’s core function, using a palette of rich, herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs to bring it to life. Lee is known for his plant-packed designs that engage wildlife and their owners—keeping hard landscaping and man-made materials to a minimum with his sleek and quirky design styles.
Lee is also famous for his hand-drawn and watercolour designs, which take hours to painstakingly create. Each one is unique to Lee’s design clients and never repeated.
He is a passionate supporter of greening up our grey urban spaces, reducing the concrete jungle, saying no to fake grass and encouraging people to let Mother Nature do most of the work by allowing herbaceous perennials to create a year-round garden.
After designing over 300 gardens and teaching thousands of students, I’ve distilled everything into three comprehensive online courses that take you from confused beginner to confident garden designer.
Whether you’re tackling your first garden makeover or finally want to understand the principles behind great design, I’ll teach you the systematic approach I’ve refined over 20 years of professional work.
Garden Design for Beginners | £199
My flagship 4-week course covering site analysis, design principles, plant selection, and implementation. The complete system I use on every garden, now available from your sofa.
Weekend Garden Makeover Course | £99
Transform your garden in just one weekend using my rapid design method. Perfect for time-poor gardeners who want professional results fast.
Small Garden Design Templates | £29
30 ready-to-use garden layouts for spaces under 100m². Professional designs you can implement immediately, no experience required.
Every course includes lifetime access, so you can revisit lessons as you develop your garden over the years.
Join the 5,000+ Garden Ninjas who’ve already transformed their outdoor spaces with my proven methods.
Garden Design Examples for Small Gardens: 30 Design Templates & Planting Plans: In this online gardening course, I’ll walk you through 30 fantastic garden designs, explaining the logic behind the layout, the plant choices, and take-home tips for applying them in your own garden.
Learn how to transform and design your own garden with Lee Burkhills crash course in garden design. Over 5 hours Lee will teach you how to design your own dream garden. Featuring practical design examples, planting ideas and video guides. Learn how to design your garden in one weekend!
Garden Design for Beginners Online Course: If you want to make the career jump to becoming a garden designer or to learn how to design your own garden, this is the beginner course for you. Join me, Lee Burkhill, an award-winning garden designer, as I train you in the art of beautiful garden design.
Garden Ninja is also available for work in the media, such as TV appearances, radio talk shows, social media collaborations or magazine articles. Get in touch to enquire about working with Garden Ninja.
Lee Burkhill, known as the Garden Ninja, is an award-winning garden designer and horticulturist with over 30 years of gardening experience and 15 years as a professional garden designer. A qualified RHS (Royal Horticultural Society) professional, Lee specialises in sustainable garden design and practical horticultural advice. He designs and presents on BBC1’s Garden Rescue and in leading gardening publications. Lee combines three decades of hands-on gardening knowledge with professional design qualifications to help gardeners create beautiful, functional outdoor spaces.
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