Designing for Sustainable Gardens
Do you want to create a sustainable garden and adopt sustainable gardening practices?In addition to gardening in a consciously sustainable way, reducing or preferably omitting use of pesticides for example, there are lots of measures we can take to reduce the negative...
Best Trees for Small Gardens
Questions you need to ask.There are so many lovely trees for the smaller garden it makes it hard to choose. When I’m selecting one for a design project I start by focussing on what the tree is for and what the existing conditions are like. So for example, is autumn...
Design Tips for small gardens
Where to start?When I embark on a new design project I start by trying to identify the character of the site, what makes it different or special. This doesn’t have to be ground-breaking detective work, but it does help if you are working with the dominant...
Growing the future at Chelsea Flower Show 2020
I was so excited to receive the news back in 2019 that Facebook wanted to work with me again to produce a new show garden design for the 2020 Chelsea Flower Show, and even more excited when the assessment panel approved the design….
Chelsea Flower Show 2019 Roundup
Well, we did it! An amazing team effort from so many people. The best bit for me was that everyone involved was so proud of the garden and put so much energy and enthusiasm into it - that made it a really special project for me.Of course winning a Gold Medal at...
Chelsea Flower Show 2019 Update
Difficult to know where to start but I think it’s safe to say that since January 7th 2019, it’s pretty much been all about Chelsea for me. Monday 7th January was a very early start, flying to Hamburg to make the final and critical choice for the second large pine tree...