The National Geographic list of must-see places for 2016 includes the Okavango Delta in Botswana, the beaches of Brazil and the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. All amazing destinations but no real surprises.
Read MoreThis is an article I wrote for the Garden Design Journal. It was published in the November 2015 edition. It discusses some of the issues around designing sustainable gardens - something that many garden designers, their clients and garden owners in general probably aspire to but which is perhaps not so easy to put into practice.
Read MoreAs the garden ripens, the temptation to cut down those tatty old stems can be hard to resist. Apart from the fact that many seed-heads are beautifully architectural and provide a valuable winter larder for birds, there's another reason to hold on to your secateurs....the self-seeders.
Read MoreI've been lucky enough to work on many interesting gardens. A recent Lincoln project though has been unusual for the spirit of creative adventure encouraged by the client - busy business people with an artistic instinct....and hands-on gardeners. *'Here's the space. We're not sure what to do with it and we're interested to see what you come up with....oh yes and we love Gaudi'*. As canvasses go that really was blank.
Read MoreLondon is full of surprises but it’s not everyday you stumble across something that blows you away. Last Sunday, on a pleasant, if not particularly eventful, walk along the South Bank from Rotherhithe, there was that something. Gardens…..floating on the rushing wet-sand-coloured water of Old Father Thames, just a stone’s throw from Tower Bridge.
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