Only a few days until Christmas, and much as I love the winter silhouette of the garden and the glorious frosty scenes that we’ve had here recently, I came across this photo of a lush, green garden and it made me long for spring. It’s such a lovely, fresh vibrant combination and I thought you’d like to […]
Archives for December 2012
Inspiring & practical books for gardeners
Whether you’re a professional designer, keen gardener or armchair gardener, books about gardens are a great source of inspiration and practical information for gardeners. I always have some on my list at Christmas, these are three of my favourites that you might like to add to your list: Late Summer Flowers by Marina Christopher: […]
Friday inspiration – how to organise the lay-out of your garden
Winter used to feel like a time when I was just waiting for Spring to begin, a break in the proceedings before we could really get on with the business of gardening. This is partly because in my job, winter can be frustrating when the ground is too hard and frosty to plant or lay paving. Gardens may […]
All you need to know about this sweetly, scented winter flowering shrub.
Just in case you haven’t met before, can I introduce you to the winter flowering shrub Viburnum bodnantense Dawn . Not only does it have the kind of soft pink blushed flowers that you expect to find on a summers day, they’re also sweetly scented. It’ll be flowering now in more sheltered gardens but not untill January […]
Small steps towards sustainable garden design
I had a bit of a wobbly moment when the delivery of materials arrived during the building of my first show garden at the Hampton Court Flower Show in back 2008. Everyone else had shiny, plastic wrapped palettes of bricks, paving etc deposited at their sites. Whilst I had a pile of timber […]