The two later worked as partners on parterre gardens at Hampton Court, Chelsea Hospital, Longleat, Chatsworth, Melbourne Hall, Wimpole Hall and Castle Howard, drawing inspiration from engravings of contemporary garden designs in France and the Netherlands.

[citation needed] Wise and London translated into English two well-known French texts on gardening.

The resulting work was titled "The Retir'd Gard'ner, in Two Volumes: the Whole Revis'd, with Several Alterations and Additions, Which Render It Proper for Our English Culture."

[5] Wise became wealthy through his gardening endeavours and purchased the manor of The Priory, Warwick.

[9] The writer and garden designer Stephen Switzer trained with London and Wise.