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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.

the delights of fading flowers

When I was an impoverished art student, I took to painting dead flowers.  I don’t think it was the fact that I couldn’t often afford to replace any flowers I bought that led me to paint them, more tha
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contemporary cottage garden design

For many years I’ve admired a very pretty thatched cottage that’s on a small lane I occasionally use, so was particularly delighted when the new owners asked me to look at the garden for them!  I thin
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Tuscan inspiration

I’ve just come back, somewhat reluctantly it has to be admitted, from a couple of weeks in Tuscany.  As ever when travelling (and one of my main reasons to travel), I come back inspired by new scenery
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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 fr
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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 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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