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 […]
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.
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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Surrey garden design
A garden I designed for a large Surrey house is nearing completion; here are some photos I took there last week (starting with a ‘before’!) The house as you can see was lovely but in need of modernisation and this view, above, was taken from the entrance of the drive – so there was no […]
Ohio lecture tour!
I’ve just come back from a trip to Ohio where I was delivering a series of lectures at Lakeside Chautauqua on the shores of Lake Erie, was guest of honour at various events at the Governor’s Residence in Columbus and in between times was visiting gardens and natural habitats and meeting local experts including Guy Denny, […]
