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The Journey: A Garden Designers Round Table Post
Later in life, when we look back on difficult times past, or perhaps while enduring current stress and personal disaster, a simple, reflective route can be a useful tool in the therapeutic process. And...
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Garden Boundaries – some Garden Design bites
Boundaries? Why might garden boundaries matter? Well, ‘an Englishman’s home is his castle’! ‘Man the barricades!’ ‘Repel all boarders!’ It is caveman stuff, right? A gentler sense of this atavistic...
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‘Buried’ Bliss
The joke is that Bristol claims to be built on 7 hills ‘like The Eternal City of Rome itself’ but there the similarity quite definitely ends! You would look in vain for all the fabulous history, the...
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Salix alba ‘Britzensis’ -“burning bright”
“Tiger, tiger burning bright in the forests of the night” wrote William Blake. Well, OK, perhaps not quite burning bright but then it was the dullest of days today. Glowing strongly shall we say? And...
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Conviction Planting: Bulbs
If you are doing something do it properly. Or not at all. And so I find myself heading out from west Bristol to leafy Langford in North Somerset with the 2 city studio divas on board. It is their...
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Afternoon Tea with Satan
Yesterday afternoon I found myself a companion – no, not the love of my life – and neither will it be forever. Let me explain. I was positioning plants for a hot border. The previous border contents...
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A pause for thought on garden seats and the F word
A garden seat is certainly appropriate in most gardens. It could be by the backdoor to sit with a coffee, in the early morning sun, before you hit the road. In my own tiny garden it is a ‘gin and tonic...
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The Minimalist Garden – an update.
It was a vote of confidence, in The Minimalist Garden, from an unexpected quarter! A construction worker on a neighbouring building called out that he wanted to have his lunch in the garden we had...
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‘The root of all evil’ or the route of all health.
‘The answer lies in the soil’ Arthur Fallowfield used to say with a pronounced rural burr, on the BBC’s iconic comedy triumph ‘Beyond Our Ken’. And the root zone for trees is certainly a potentially...
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Lytes Cary – a garden review
Christopher Hussey famously described the gardens at Lytes Cary as being like ‘a necklace of garden rooms strung on green corridors’. How poetic! But garden rooms are such a garden design ‘go-to...
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