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 – 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 so far and I have no doubt it will be an action packed finale in the coming weeks. Last summer I headed up to RHS…
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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 who are looking for designers to take up places at future shows. Tatton is a long trek North for me but it was, I have…
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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