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 of the boulders they used. We too are doing a dry run, although on a far less grand or comprehensive scale. The setting out is…
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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 to plan forward in so much detail. I used to do this a lot in my corporate days, and of course waiting for holidays to…
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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 Wednesday 20th July until Sunday 24th July. I will be there building from 6th July to start the build and leaving around 27th July after…
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Iris
It’s usually May that’s my busy month with Iris but this year it’s all been a bit delayed with a sudden cold snap and then the winds and then the next cold snap and, well you get the picture. Happily my lovely collection of Iris have managed to flower really well this year, taking advantage…
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RHS Chelsea 2015
A great spectacle as ever from the RHS and the BBC. Chelsea flower show seems to be being taken over by the media and their coverage, gardens are no longer for the paying public but more for the camera and of the course the VIP and celebrity who now frequent the show throughout the week….
Continue ReadingCausing a ruckus over at The Guardian
I feel quite strongly about this topic and was lucky enough to write a short piece for the Guardian Blog this month on it. http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gardening-blog/2014/jun/18/chelsea-flower-show-gardens It’s not so much about it ‘not being fair’ as one commenter suggested, it’s more about the Garden Design industry event of the year not being dumbed down by television…
Continue ReadingSpread the word about Transformation…
Having our work transform peoples lives is a happy part of the work of a garden designer, or course we hope it’s for the better as people find outside spaces they can enjoy, entertain, play and relax in, be active in, see and support the wildlife habitats that grow up around their freshly planted gardens….
Continue ReadingFur and feathers are flying
Chelsea 2013 heralded the 100th year of the now infamous show down at the river in SW3. Much was made of it in the run up, ticket prices were up significantly but attending numbers were down, probably due to ticket prices jumping by £10 in one year and £16 in the last 3 (that’s a…
Continue Readingit’s Chelsea Week
I’ve said this to a few non-horti friends and they look blankly at me as if I am peaking another language, which in their world I probably am. Chelsea week is the pinnacle of many many months of hard work from a select number of designers and their wider, very devoted ‘teams’. The RHS start…
Continue ReadingTodos June
This is a busy month and rather than list all the things you should, could, would be doing how about just letting it all go a bit wild and sitting in the ‘occasional’ sunshine with a glass of something cold? If like me you cannot just sit there watching the weeds grow then take a…
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