Adding magic to your garden with winter fragrance. Whilst working as a garden designer, I am often asked to provide some winter interest to a garden. It is often easy to turn to the visual; using evergreens, and coloured stems to add a visual impact in the coldest months. One aspect that is easy to...Read More
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
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
10 things we can do in our own little haven You might think that climate change is all to do with pollution and gases and recycling, and you would be right. It is affecting all of us. Every year, the wet bits get wetter, the hot bits hotter and the dry parts dryer (yes I...Read More
Hedges – What should you choose and why they are important. A quick list of dos and don’ts and some new ideas (you may, or may not have heard) A lovely client of mine; who found me because of my articles in a magazine is looking for ideas for a new hedge and encouraged me...Read More
This garden was suffering from lots of tall trees beyond their south boundary. Meaning it got very little sun in the middle of the day and suffered from leaf litter. The lawn was mossy and boggy; with no path to the summer house feet were getting wet. A large trampoline was dominating the space, but...Read More
This relatively large garden had little to offer the new owners. They has already removed a large number of very tall hedge plants to open the garden up, but were stuck with an unusual shaped patio and some large empty beds. A summer house had already been installed, but it was important to add to...Read More
