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Detail from a design this week for a semi-formal courtyard bed, featuring two planted tanks, drought-tolerant planting and crushed limestone mulch. Proposals include: galvanised steel water tanks from @rutlandgardenclassics Perennials from @arvens
Concept image for a Thurlestone garden we are starting on next week with @green_bee_salcombe_ . The rendering engine did not cope with the barn conversion in the background, hence the rather dramatic skyline…still, blue sky thinking and all th
Perspective concept sketch for a London project to show general layout and hard elements. This is a second stage project to complete a (very long!) garden we initially landscaped in 2022. The trampoline will be masked by a crisp Yew hedge and surroun
A momentous day for the Ashburton project! From site survey in January through a late summer start on the hard landscaping, the re-levelling of the entire site into terraces and the construction of three retaining walls and underground drains…
The Big Build….It’s begun!!! This secluded medieval walled garden is separated from the current Eighteenth Century townhouse by the old stable block and choked up with some rather nice wildflowers (Centrathus, Oregano…) and some n
An upcoming build and a sort of potential after-and-before! this one is going out to tender in a few days- Corten-retained terraces stepping up from the stone wall to replace the wonky lawn, resilient planting going in and mulched deeply with crushed
With something of a dearth of mature plants in this garden, we've encouraged the native self seeders to create layers of texture and colour across the space by mowing further from the edges and lifting a few clumps into border gaps that needed fillin
Behind the old orchard is this lovely run of wild garlic (or stinking jenny/ snake-plant/ devil's-posy!), backed by a good hazel hedge that at some point was properly laid in the old Devon fashion, with the pleachers almost entirely flat. Just a few
Continuing on the subject of minimal intervention... the awkward cookie cutter circle bed of sheepish plants could have been edited, the outline could have been tweaked to echo the space it shared or the plants could have been changed. Instead the ch
A lesson learned! Take your time (give it a year) before you commit to anything madly interventional. An August viewing of our potential new home revealed what appeared to be a back garden of nettles and brambles, buzzed-down for our arrival. Arms we