Background
Arabella Lennox-Boyd was born in Rome and grew up there and at Palazzo Parisi, Oliveto their family home. She is a daughter of Piero Parisi and a granddaughter of General Armando Diaz, 1st Duke Duca della Vittoria.
Arabella Lennox-Boyd was born in Rome and grew up there and at Palazzo Parisi, Oliveto their family home. She is a daughter of Piero Parisi and a granddaughter of General Armando Diaz, 1st Duke Duca della Vittoria.
Arabella Lennox-Boyd, The Honorary She later settled in England where she undertook a course in Landscape Architecture at Thames Polytechnic. Since moving to Gresgarth Hall in Lancashire in 1978 with her family, Arabella Lennox-Boyd developed the gardens there marrying Italian style with British plantmanship.
Over a career spanning 40 years, she has undertaken commissions all over the world, ranging from small town gardens to large historical landscapes.
Her client list includes Sting, Sir Terence Conran and Queen Paola of Belgium. In 1989 Arabella formed Arabella Lennox-Boyd Landscape and Architectural Design where she heads a team of designers.
She has held several public appointments in landscape and horticulture including serving as a trustee of Kew Gardens for 9 years. She is currently a trustee of The Yorkshire Arboretum Trust formally known as the Castle Howard Arboretum Trust.
She is patron of the Painshill Park Trust and is on the Council and the Scientific Panel of the International Dendrology Society.
She serves on the RHS Woody Plant Committee and is also a trustee of The Tree Register T.R.O.B.I.
She was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Design (HonDDes) by the University of Greenwich and is a member of The University of Greenwich Assembly. She was a member of the Historic Parks and Gardens Panel of English Heritage and sat on the Heritage panel of judges for six contemporary heritage gardens.
