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.

Open Garden, RNAS Military cemetery, Yeovilton

As part of the Society of Garden Designer’s 30th Anniversary celebrations, 30 gardens across the UK have been selected to showcase the best of British design and I’m delighted to say that my design for the extension to the military cemetery at Yeovilton has been selected as one of these gardens. The Open Garden event is Sunday […]

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John Makepeace’s garden of grasses, Dorset

I had a bit of a busman’s holiday last Sunday, visiting the eminent furniture maker John Makepeace’s garden in Beaminster. It’s always interesting seeing how a craftsman in one medium transfers ideas and concepts into another, and the Makepeace garden is no exception.  I suppose it’s no surprise that there are few straight lines, given that […]

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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 […]

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Cothay Manor

I recently re-visited the garden at Cothay Manor in Somerset, as I am leading a tour of West Country gardens in a few weeks time for Martin Randall Travel and wanted to see if there were changes I should be prepared for!  The tour is focusing on 20th century gardens, ‘from Jekyll to Pearson’, and will […]

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