Please do browse my garden design blog; in it you’ll find garden ideas, inspiration and product reviews, reports from Shows including the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, pretty pictures from places I’ve been, a bit of arty stuff (paintings and drawings) and anything else I find interesting that I think you might enjoy too.
I want to update you all on this important garden that will bring the infected blood scandal to a huge audience at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show next year! Following discussions with the RHS, I have redesigned the garden to give a more positive feel and am glad of the push! While the subject is […]
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For those interested in the best plants to grow, including new-to-you and unusual varieties, you might like to know about this lovely book that I was so pleased to be asked to contribute to! Beautifully designed and presented, this is a series of plant profiles of the best plants to grow, from, as it says, […]
Thousands of UK haemphiliacs have died from being given blood contaminated with lethal viruses in their treatment; my brother Simon was one of them. And yet so few people know about it, nor have any comprehension of the the scale of the disaster. I want to change this by creating a powerful visual image of […]
I’m thrilled that a photograph I took of woodland near to me has been shortlisted in the Landscape Photographer of the Year awards! These prestigious awards celebrate the best of the UK landscape, and receive tens of thousands of entries each year from photographers around the world. I took the photo last November, on a […]
We are all feeling the impact of the coronavirus crisis, but one good thing coming out of this is that people are realising the importance of their gardens. I have devised a way to design your garden remotely, that you can implement yourselves following my step-by-step instructions. This will give you a project to focus […]
Who doesn’t love winter when the light is like this! And who says gardens are just for summer! How lucky am I that this is my route to my new office in the beautiful Parham Park! Inspiration on my doorstep! […]
Now the evenings are drawing in (or rather, have drawn in!) it’s a good time to think about garden lighting. Even in a small space, a few lights beneath specific trees or shrubs, or, as in my own garden, highlighting a modern sculptural bird bath, can help extend the enjoyment of your garden. I recently revisited […]
I’m really excited to have been taken on by Martin Randall Travel as a consultant to expand his range of garden tours and I’d like to tell you about the first of these, the Veneto gardens tour, that will run this May. You can find full details by following the link Martin Randall Travel, Veneto […]
It’s a little belated but I’ve just discovered that a pool I designed won Residential Outdoor Pool of the Year at the 2015 UK Pool & Spa Awards! I found out by chance as I was googling images of swimming pools for some inspiration for a new project and I thought, I know that pool! Sadly there was […]
I’m just back from the latest tour that I have designed and led for Hope Taft, former First Lady of Ohio, and this time we visited the Netherlands. “Oh for the tulips!” people say. In September? I don’t think so! There is so much more to the Netherlands than tulips and in fact to visit […]
