ABOUT

From a very young age Camille Bouchard has been immersed in the world of gardening and so this is where she focused all her studies and working experience until in 2014 she graduated with a master’s degree in landscape architecture at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Nature et du Paysage at Blois, France.

By that time she had worked on garden design in horticultural environments as diverse as Scotland, Australia, Malaysia, and France; in great gardens privately owned, national botanical gardens, and commercial garden design firms.

In 2016 she initiated a path of creative work in Portugal, where she integrated landscape design and technical garden building for public festivals and individual residential projects. For a variety of clients she has introduced the scope of permaculture for water-scarce sustainable lifestyles, applying a painstaking approach to the characteristics of the soil, landscape, and climate; combining ancient, traditional and advanced technologies for the enhancement of aesthetic pleasure and environmental conservation.

Although it has been just six years of professional practice in Portugal, Camille has demonstrated the range of her skills in a great variety of client demand situations from a private small home plot to large-scale public events. She has been designing and building to unify landscape architecture with permaculture as a singular, original way of thinking, experiencing, learning, and enjoying without the artificial inhibitions of the conventional built environments, allowing beauty and practical techniques of gardening to join. To her credentials she has added the permaculture design and teacher training courses at Vale de Lama, Portugal.

The art of creating beautiful unique gardens with a conscious approach toward the land, the environmental problems and harmonizing the wishes of the clients with the requirements of the land are the challenges that Camille is passionate about.