Sylvia Crowe

Dame Sylvia Crowe, DBE (15 September 1901 – 30 June 1997)[1] was an English landscape architect and garden designer.

Her father retired early due to ill health and moved the family to Felbridge, Sussex, to work as fruit farmer.

[4] During the Second World War, Crowe served in France as an ambulance driver with the Polish Army.

In 1972, Stephen Alexander Reith Gray was Flintshire High Sheriff and Chief Executive of Shotton Steelworks.

He commissioned Crowe and Raymond Cutbush to redesign the gardens and they remain much as they look today, with formal and informal features which includes herbaceous borders, yew hedges and island beds with mixed planting.