I dare you to cut back your dogwoods…
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Garden design & the landscape
Designing gardens for sculpture, designing gardens for the landscape beyond
Tulipa purissima
early spring flowers…
Design study trip to Paris
Art, architecture and public open spaces
Working with No. 21 Shepton Mallet
Gardens, conservatories, sculpture…
My January garden
How many flowers do you have in your garden?
Hedgelaying
I have started my list of winter jobs with laying 20 meters of quite mature hazel, a very satifying day’s work. However it is a long hedge and there are already a lot of thinings to tidy up! A bit more to go…
Country garden – Dorset
A garden with formal cosy area close to the house extending to coppice, orchard and vineyard
Autumn gardening
This late spell of warm weather is perfect for ripening the climbing borlotti beans; the sunflowers are appreciating it too.
A winning garden in Shaftesbury
A lucky couple in Shaftesbury won a free £6000 garden makeover from Castle Gardens (garden centre, Sherborne) earlier this year. I was commissioned to redesign the front garden which I helped plant up today. The front garden to this 1930’s brick house was dominated by a tidy lawn however the borders were very overgrown and the…