Planting Strategies

Planting Strategies is a UK-based landscape design studio led by Anna Andreyeva, a 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 architects and landscape designers such as Junya Ishigami, OMA, Inside/Outside, LDA Design, MVVA, BIG, and Gillespies, 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. Her doctoral research, supervised by Nigel Dunnett, James Hitchmough, and Jan Woudstra explores the history of ecological ideas in planting design from the 19th century onwards. It examines how ecological thinking entered landscape architecture and the use of plant communities as habitat templates for a changing climate. Anna's experiments focused on steppe communities for green roofs and urban landscapes.

Anna's work follows and extends the Sheffield School tradition, bringing its ecological principles into contemporary design practice. Coming from Russia — a country with exceptionally diverse vegetation and climates — Anna has a broader ecological perspective, shaped by professional experience across regions and long familiarity with plants in the field.

Alongside her research, Anna continues to work independently and in collaboration with design studios in the UK and Europe. Recent projects include The Eden Dock for HTA Design in London, Peveril Gardens in London, designed with Nigel Dunnett; a garden in Tuscany for Paris-based Crosby Studio, 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 sub-Mediterranean conditions.

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