Let go of your gardening guilt Guilt plays a huge part in our lives today. We are encouraged more than ever by TV, social media, and images all around us to feel that what and who we are is less than we should be. We feel guilty when we eat ‘bad’ food, we feel guilty...Read More

How to plan your low maintenance garden As a self- confessed Lazy gardener and an experienced garden designer, I want to pass on a few tips about planning your garden; that will help you have an easier garden to look after in years to come. We all have so little time these days. But plan...Read More

Are you struggling with one or more of these issues? I often see my job as a garden designer as a problem solver, but I’ve never listed all the problems that I have solved before. I was set a challenge to list as many problems as I could think of that I have solved for...Read More

My clients’ garden is long and thin and turns a corner, so only a small part of it could be seen from the ground floor windows. A slate patio has already been added, but the rest of the garden had become over grown and with busy work lives difficult to manage, with a  lot of lawn,...Read More

After living at their property for some years my clients had created some lovely areas that divided the small space into distinct areas. However time was taking its toll on the garden. An old green house was dominating the view from the house and had become a bit of a dumping ground, whereas a raised...Read More

My client had recently had a substantial extension, which ate into their garden considerably, meaning they lost their patio and much of the garden became compacted with building materials;. along with the addition of a large young dog to the family who loved to dig, the garden was becoming a muddy patch with some over...Read More

10 Tips to help you get it right in your small garden. What is a small garden? To be honest it is all relative, out here in the ‘burbs’, we have a real variety of garden size from the few acres to a few metres, what I am talking about here is anything under 100...Read More