Making marks
Making marks is all part of the design process. Typically I start work with pencils and graphite markers on tracing paper as the first step, sometimes working with coloured crayons
A time to plan
In these dark winter days I find myself planning many things, sometimes gardens in their entirety mostly it’s planting or work schedules for the year to come but then there
Making : A wreath for Christmas
I know I know it’s OCTOBER, how can I be talking about the BIG season so soon? we haven’t even had Halloween yet! I have a reason and good one
Plant of the Month – July – Helenium
I am a recent convert to Helenium I must admit but since finding them am an avid fan. They are one of those wonderful daisy shapes that looks good coming
Planting for a superb Spring
Winter drags on and even when the Snowdrops kick of the growing season there are still a good few weeks of often miserable weather lurking around the corner. The arrival
SGD Spring Conference – Way out West
Way out west it was too, all the way over in South Kensington on the west of London town. The best of spring days, with the sun out and the
10 things to know about doing an RHS Show Garden
1. Read the RHS manual’s before hand and then read them again. Tomes I thought, one was 90 odd pages. “No time“, “not really going to be relevant“. BUT how
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RHS Tatton – it’s almost over, dismantling the show garden
Officially we could have dismantled on Sunday but not one of us was that desperate to slog that one out. Queuing to get back onsite after the show closed was
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RHS Tatton – Judging and THE Press
Still catching up with the posts about our RHS Tatton garden, admittedly in a fairly random order! For a first timer there was quite a bit of anxiety around this.
RHS Tatton – Week 1 build
Goodness what a steep learning curve that was! RHS Tatton 2016 is well and truly over and it was mostly madness and all consuming except for the one half day
RHS Tatton – 1 week to go
I read last year that Dan Pearson and his Chelsea team did a dry run of the garden they presented, which must have been quite the feat given the size
RHS Tatton – 2 weeks to go
2 weeks today we will be onsite. EEEK Oddly I haven’t done this kind of counting down for a long time, normally I don’t need, or get, this much headspace
RHS Tatton – 3 Weeks to go
I maybe confusing some folk, when I say 3 weeks to go, this is 3 weeks until I GO to RHS Tatton, the show is open to the public from
RHS Tatton – 4 weeks to go
In fact it’s 3.5 weeks until we decamp to Cheshire and the start of the build on our garden, Inner Sanctum, at RHS Tatton. It has been quite the journey
Garden Visit: Pensthorpe, Norfolk
Visiting a new client in Norfolk last week and took the opportunity to visit Pensthorpe Millenium Gardens, just down the road. Another delightfully dingy day brought out the zingy colours
Garden Visit: RHS Tatton
After a damp squib day at Wollerton the day before a bright breezy day at RHS Tatton Park was perfect. I went at the invitation of the RHS Tatton team
Growing Edibles in the Ornamental Garden
Do you grow edibles in your ornamental garden? It’s something I am beginning to be asked more and more when designing gardens. Sometimes there is space and a desire to
Rabbit Fencing and other materials
This has been a slightly less hectic week than last week. Only slightly though. Monday saw me out in the inclement weather most of the day, fielding inappropriate footware, a
blog!
Moving to a new blog is quite daunting. Will readers come with me? Will I be talking to myself for weeks on end again? Can I work out the new