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Planting plan and planting – Shepton Mallet
A low maintenance planting plan offering year round interest.
Garden Gurus – Glastonbury FM
What a fun ‘Garden Gurus’ team at Glastonbury FM! Tess came out to interview me on site planting trees in my new cider orchard, it was a very wild and windy day and one friend aptly describing it as ‘blowing a hooley’. Despite the hooley Tess managed to catch most of what I had to say about the subsoiling, the short…
Pruning fruit trees
Shepton Mallet Horticultural Society were treated to me talking about the winter pruning of apple trees! A short presentation about “knowing your buds” and “understanding what is a good strong shape” was followed by an interactive session pruning two apple trees that I took in. Pub staff were entertained by us ‘crazy gardeners’ carrying apple…
Garden design / forest gardening – Bristol
A garden design for a collection useful and herbal plants. The site was more or less a blank canvas on a predominantly clay soil. This has been an interesting project involving the creation of shelter belts, drainage considerations and forest gardening principles.
Eco house garden – Shepton Mallet
A consultation for a new garden on a sloping site with natural springs and extensive views of the Somerset countryside. The garden has been laid out to have impact and vista lines whilst being low maintenance.
Courtyard planting plan – Pylle
A planting plan for a Mediterranean style courtyard garden; low maintenance, sensory, year round interest and architectural shapes.
Large Garden – Surrey
A garden design for a clients who have moved to a large house, the brief was to redesign the car park , approach to house (and office) as well as the side of the house and rear patio area for clients with a very busy lifestyle. I used very low maintenance, cottage style planting introducing structure with new paths,…
Implementing design in phases
A garden design is sometimes implemented in phases depending upon season and / or budget. In this Somerset garden there was only just time in the spring to prepare beds and plant some bare root hedging. My clients have been experimenting with mowing patterns to introduce interest and a sense of division of space, such a…
Small courtyard garden – Somerset
A charming small courtyard in need of decluttering of pots and containers, a design, hard rejuvanative pruning of shrubs, reshaping, levelling and reseeding of lawn. I offered hands-on pruning instruction to the client so empowering her to tackle more pruning next winter (pruning of overgrown Forsythia bush after flowering) – this was a nice small project with fast…