PLANTING STRATEGIES

Planting Strategies is a UK-based landscape design and research studio led by Anna Andreyeva, a Moscow-born landscape designer and researcher whose work explores the meeting point of ecology and art.

Founded in 2020, the studio continues the work of Anna’s former Moscow-based practice Alphabet City, drawing on more than a decade of experience in public and residential landscapes across Europe and Russia.

Anna began her career in Moscow, where she introduced naturalistic perennial planting to public parks for the first time. Her early projects — including Muzeon Park, Krymskaya Embankment, and Sadovniki Park — transformed how planting was used in Russian urban space. She collaborated with international landscape designers such as LDA Design Gillespies and, creating large-scale parks and residential landscapes that combine artistic composition with ecological depth.

Since moving to the UK in 2018, Anna has been based at the University of Sheffield, pursuing a PhD under Nigel Dunnett, James Hitchmough and Jan Woudstra. Her research investigates among other things how Eurasian steppe vegetation can inform planting design for podium landscapes and roof gardens, translating vegetation science into new design practice.

Alongside her research, Anna continues to work independently and in collaboration with design studios in the UK and Europe. Recent projects include Peveril Gardens in London, designed with Nigel Dunnett; a garden in Tuscany, published in Architectural Digest; the Bay of Finland Garden, featured in The Contemporary Garden (Phaidon, 2025); and Cascaret, an ongoing landscape commission exploring dry-adapted planting in Mediterranean conditions.

Her work brings together ecology, climate insight, and art — creating landscapes that feel discovered, not made.

Info

+44 7535 660929

anna.andreyeva@plantingstrategies.com

All images are used with permission from the photographers Andrey Lysikov, Boris Kondakov, Vika Bodorodskaya, Mitya Aleshkovsky, Nadezhda Osotina, Elena Gulyaeva, Pavel Kuznetsov, Mikhail Loskutov, Liam Rimmington, Annie Jones

Plants are an important element in landscape architecture. The quality and effect of landscape are directly affected by planting design decisions. The book selects excellent landscape projects recently completed in which planting plays an important

Landscape Planting Design by Cannon B. Ivers (Design Media, 2019) features Krymskaya Embankment meadow planting

Plants are an important element in landscape architecture. The quality and effect of landscape are directly affected by planting design decisions. The book selects excellent landscape projects recently completed in which planting plays an important role. With photos, drawings, design narratives, and in-depth analysis of the functions and configurations of planting, you will learn about how to use appropriate plants according to local climate, topography, ecology, surrounding environment and other conditions and special requirements. Landscape architects and plant specialists Nigel Dunnett and Giacomo Guzzon are invited to write essays on the colour palette and biodiversity of planting design, sharing with us their design principles and practices in their project experience.