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, […]
GARDEN DESIGN BLOG. IDEAS, INSPIRATION AND NEWS
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.
Simon’s Garden – Chelsea Flower Show 2025
Contaminated Blood Scandal I have designed a Show Garden for the Chelsea Flower Show which is very personal to me and highlights an important and under-recognised national disaster. Thousands of UK haemophiliacs have died from being given contaminated blood in their treatment; my brother Simon was one of them. See at the end of this […]
Landscape Photographer of the Year
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 […]
coronavirus and gardens
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 […]
Sussex light
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! […]
Garden lighting
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 […]
Veneto Gardens tour 2nd – 8th May 2017
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 […]
Award-winning swimming pool
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 […]
Netherlands gardens
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 […]
Talk on winter gardens coming up in February!
Last May I gave a talk at the Leconfield restaurant in Petworth which was followed by a delicious dinner! The evening was a huge success and they asked me to do another talk for them, this time on Winter Gardens. Many people believe that the garden should be ‘put to bed’ for the winter. The reality […]
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