February 2010
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garden design in Taunton Somerset
This is a current project of mine in Taunton; I was there yesterday to see how the build is going. The house is an old coach house, set within part of the original walled Victorian kitchen garden (very good soil!). The clients had put in a box mini-knot (a knottette?) some years ago, slightly too close [...]
Transylvania
For the past few years I’ve been working in rural Transylvania; forget what you know of Dracula, this is an incredibly beautiful and unspoilt region which deserves to be more widely known. Transylvania is a province of Romania and lies in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains, where wolves, lynxes and bears still run wild. [...]
Montenegrin Landscape
This sketch was of an extraordinary and very beautiful landscape around the Boka Kotorska in Montenegro; huge blocks of white limestone seemingly erupting from the hillside, juxtaposed with mulberry, birch and beech forest – bright green when in sun, dark and moody against the white when in the shade. Nestled against this unlikely backdrop was [...]
Snowdrops and ivy
I put this little pot of snowdrops on my windowsill so I could play around with a light and dark background behind the flowers, and a bit of reflected light on the pot. The contrasts between light and dark, and with strong geometry behind plants, is a theme I come back to time and again (and [...]