Meet Our
Garden Design and Landscaping Teams

We provide full-service garden design and landscape construction solutions across London and Hertfordshire. With our expert in-house garden designers, landscape architects, and garden build professionals, we guarantee a smooth and unified garden design and landscaping experience. From the initial garden design through to the final implementation, we cultivate luxury gardens for our clients.

Meet Our
Managing Director

Herman Ermal Pobrati

Managing Director

Roles: Owner, Landscape Construction Consultant, Horticulturist and Project Manager

Strengths: Outdoor environmental quality enhancement, Smart and eco-friendly design, Native Landscaping, Sustainable social, economic and environmental design, Balanced design of form and function.

Qualifications and Experience: Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture and then a Master’s Degree in Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning. Extensive experience in the design of small urban spaces based on the principles of sustainable development, urban regeneration and passive spaces systems. Enthusiastic about implementing contemporary innovations and developments in outdoor spaces.

Joined Acacia Gardens: 2004.

Meet Our
Garden Design Team

Emma Appleby

Garden and Landscape Designer

Emma Appleby comes to Acacia Gardens with a wealth of experience. Emma ran her own successful garden design practice for well over a decade, with Acacia Gardens building many of her designs. This successful partnership resulted in Emma joining the team, as Acacia Gardens leading in-house designer.

Emma is passionate about the healing, restorative quality of gardens, along with improving wildlife habitats along the way. She has designed many beautiful gardens for clients across London and abroad, with a speciality for designing spaces with tricky slopes and levels.

Emma graduated from the English Gardening School at the Chelsea Physic Garden in 2007, with a Distinction in Garden Design. She is also an RHS Qualified Plantsperson.

Joined Acacia Gardens 2024.

Kathryn Cox

Garden and Landscape Designer

Kathryn is an award-winning garden designer with a passion to blend interiors with exteriors, designing outdoor spaces as beautiful as her clients’ homes.

Originally a creative director from the advertising industry, Kathryn has turned her eye for design and detail to the natural world. Kathryn believes in gardens filled with colour, with a focus on bio-diversity and sustainability.

She won the outstanding graduate award at the British Academy of Garden Design; received distinction in planting design at the London College of Garden Design at the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew; and holds an MA with distinction in Design Studies from Central Saint Martins.

A pre-registered member of the Society of Garden Designers, Kathryn recently won the ‘Design Under £50,000’ category at the Pro Landscaper Project Awards. Kathryn is on a mission to do her bit to help the planet, one gorgeous garden at a time.

Joined Acacia Gardens 2024.

Beatriz Blas Cabanes

Garden Designer

Strengths: Garden Design, Extensive Horticulture Knowledge, Experienced Planting Scheme Planner.

Qualifications and Experience: Bachelor’s Degree in Garden Design from Camilo Jose Cela University in Madrid, Garden Design at Capel Manor at Regents Park in London, Internship at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew London, over 8 years of experience working in the Garden Design and Soft Landscaping Industry.

Joined Acacia Gardens 2017.

Malvina Laci

Landscape Architect

Strengths: Outdoor environmental quality enhancement, Smart and eco-friendly design, Native Landscaping, Sustainable social, economic and environmental design, Balanced design of form and function.

Joined Acacia Gardens 2022.

Fatbardha Sinanaj

Garden Designer

Fatbardha, a certified garden designer from Capel Manor College, previously worked as an NHS employee for over seven years before transitioning to a career in garden design. She has a profound passion for the outdoor environment.

Joined Acacia Gardens 2024.

Meet Our Landscape Construction Team

Gentian Sinanaj

Operations Manager

Roles: Operations Manager and Landscape Consultant

Strengths: Outdoor environmental quality enhancement, Smart and eco-friendly design, Native Landscaping, Sustainable social, economic and environmental design, Balanced design of form and function.

Joined Acacia Gardens in 2014.

Remy Nela

Landscape Foreman

Role: Managing projects and teams on site. Works alongside the team to make sure our highest standards and quality is achieved all the time.

Strengths: Exceptional skills in project management, carpentry, irrigation, quality and attention to detail. Inspirational and trainee provider for all our Landscaping team.

Qualifications and Experience: Health and Safety and Level 2 electrical. Experienced as a skilled Landscaper since 2000.

Joined Acacia Gardens 2007