Hervey-Brookes is a well known Royal Horticultural Society Gardens Judge and speaker having lectured in the United Kingdom, Canada and Russia alongside working with a host of companies who share his values and passion for exchanging knowledge.
Hervey-Brookes grew up in Oxford and studied at both Pershore College of Horticulture and The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh focusing on plants before later landscape architecture at Cheltenham.
Hervey-Brookes has represented the United Kingdom at the Gardening World Cup in Japan in 2013, where he won Gold and Best Planting Award.
In 2014 The Royal Horticultural Society announced that Hervey-Brookes would be Mentor for the Royal Horticultural Society prestigious Young Designer of the Year competition which culminates in the finalists creating gardens at RHS Tatton Park Flower Show after having ten intensive months of guidance from Hervey-Brookes and the RHS Team.
As a design practice Paul Hervey-Brookes Associates works both in the United Kingdom and Internationally on private and public commissions.
Hosted by Sarah Raven the programme concentrated on a series of high-profile locations throughout Harrogate which had been designed by Hervey-Brookes to attract wildlife and create habitat.