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For Ula Maria, a childhood in Lithuania steeped in nature was the launch-pad for youthful success
19 March 2021 • 1:04pm
Author Ula Maria is an expert at designing gardens, from small back yards to grand lawns
Credit: Rebekah Kennington
Ula Maria, who is 27, lives in the kind of shared flat one might expect of someone her age. A sprawling mass of corridors and bedrooms above a shop, on a busy thoroughfare in South London, the dimly lit living room (no television, but several house plants) looks out at an artisanal burger restaurant.
It has no outdoor space, but the coffee table books – well-loved tomes on taxonomy and Piet Oudolf – belie her profession as a garden designer. “I feel a bit of a fraud, designing all these spaces without a plot of my own,” she tells me. “I’d love to see something actually evolve all the time myself. I’m desperate for a garden.”