Design Direction Led by Experience
Founder & Design Lead
Leo Munday is the founder of Profresco. His work is shaped by more than 30 years’ experience across arboriculture, landscape design, and design-led construction in the UK and the United States.
Throughout his career, Leo has focused on creating outdoor environments that feel architectural, restrained, and intrinsically connected to the homes they belong to. Rather than treating outdoor space as a decorative layer, his work approaches it as a considered extension of the architecture itself.
Today, Leo remains personally involved in every Profresco project, ensuring each one reflects the studio’s values of clarity, craftsmanship, and long-term performance.
Background
Leo trained in Arboriculture at Merrist Wood College, before completing Garden Design qualifications at Writtle College. This dual foundation — technical and creative — continues to inform Profresco’s approach today.
Early career work in the United States across Florida, the Midwest, and New York provided experience across a wide range of climates, scales, and residential lifestyles.
On returning to the UK, Leo established and led a high-end landscape practice delivering projects throughout London and the Home Counties, before focusing exclusively on what was then an emerging discipline: outdoor living conceived as an extension of architecture rather than a garden feature.
Alongside private commissions, Leo collaborated with leading designers on medal-winning show gardens at RHS Chelsea Flower Show and Hampton Court.
Design Approach
Every Profresco project begins with a clear understanding of the architecture, the setting, and how the space will be used in real life.
Working with a trusted network of craftsmen, technicians, and contractors, Leo maintains hands-on oversight throughout the design and build process. This ensures consistency, technical rigour, and an uncompromising standard of execution from concept through to completion.
The approach is collaborative, precise, and deliberately measured — resulting in outdoor spaces that are timeless, robust, and designed to be enjoyed year-round.