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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.

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 sho
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Chelsea Flower Show 2010

Anyone who might think that gardens develop too slowly, or last too long, to be affected by the vagaries of fashion need only visit the Chelsea Flower Show for a few consecutive years to realise just
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Chelsea flower show 2010 build up and press day

I’m incredibly fortunate in being able to spend a couple of days at the Chelsea Flower Show each year.  I love the atmosphere during build-up with its mix of nerves, exhaustion, adrenaline and steely
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“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers” Claude Monet

Call me an old romantic but I’m a bit of a sucker for tulips.  I love the way they are transformed from tight bud to over-the-top bloom, with an intensity and depth of colour almost unparalleled in th
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Dorset inspiration

I thought you might like to see some pics I took on Monday evening at Seatown, a coastal hamlet near Chideock, which is roughly halfway between Lyme Regis and Bridport. There’s always something new an
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Design for Somerset garden

I’ve just completed the outline design for this garden near Langport in Somerset.  It’s an interesting one because the garden wraps all around the house and there are fabulous views; the first being a
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Planting combination for annual flowers

During my monthly broadcast on BBC Somerset this morning I mentioned a planting combination for annuals, grown easily from seed. The beauty of growing annuals is that you can try out different colour
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Design Consultations

I went to a potentially very pretty garden this week (which the owner is quite prepared to admit is a bit of a mess at the moment – but then that’s why she asked me to visit!). While in an ideal world
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Garden Quote

I was in Sherborne today and saw a postcard with this Chinese proverb which I thought was rather splendid; “If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk. If you want to be happy for a long time
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