Jimmy Choo creative director Sandra Choi is inspired by London walks

Tucked away behind a row of Victorian villas near Little Venice in Maida Vale, London, is Clifton Nurseries, a pretty urban oasis filled with trees, topiary, vines, and rare and familiar plants. It's one of the city's best kept secrets.

Sandra Choi, Jimmy Choo's creative director, only discovered this garden nursery a year ago, when the luxury shoe brand hosted a dinner there. It transpires Choi has green fingers, exercised in her tiny garden plot across the Thames in Battersea, and her cottage (with its vast oak arboretum) near Bath.

"Nature doesn't get it wrong. Just look at the leaves of the Virginia creeper and the way they are changing colour. I can easily make a colour palette out of everything I see around me," Choi says as she wanders among the foliage and pot plants.

"I love the power nature has to renew itself, and at the same time create plants that are so beautiful and elegant."

Choi is giving a guided tour around her favourite spots in London, showing us the areas that inspire her collections and, in particular, Choo.08, which launched earlier this season and will form a core aesthetic of urban footwear within the Jimmy Choo collection.