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update to Taunton garden
I’ve just been back to visit the garden I designed at Trull, near Taunton in Somerset, a year after completion. You can see pictures of this garden as it’s being built (and as it was before) in my blog archive for February 2010. If you remember, the box knot was already in place, and it gives a [...]
national award for my Bruton garden!
I’m thrilled that the garden I designed in Batcombe, near Bruton http://www.amandapatton.co.uk/portfolio/batcombe/ has won its category in the Association of Professional Landscapers (APL) awards for 2011. These major awards celebrate the outstanding skills and craftsmanship that go into making the very best gardens and I’m delighted for Original Landscapes that this is the third year in [...]
20th century garden design in Dorset and Somerset
A week ago I had just come back from leading a tour of West Country gardens for Martin Randall Travel. I had given the tour the theme of 20th century garden designers, exploring a range of gardens from early Arts and Crafts (Athelhampton) through to two contemporary private gardens by Arabella Lennox Boyd and Dan Pearson. Christopher [...]
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 [...]