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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.

HOW FAIR IS A GARDEN AMID THE TRIALS AND PASSIONS OF EXISTENCE

Which is a quote from Benjamin Disraeli by the way.

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 o
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Gardens Illustrated November – garden featured!

I’m very excited that the garden I designed near Wisley in Surrey is featured with an eight page article in this month’s Gardens Illustrated magazine!  The very talented Richard Bloom took
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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 o
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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
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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 googlin
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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.
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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 Wi
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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
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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
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