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Friday inspiration ~ A top British designer

August 30, 2012 By Jill Anderson Leave a Comment

  There’s no doubt that as a designer you need to keep your creative muscle exercised for it to work well.     One of the best ways to do this is to see as much good design as possible on a regular basis. It doesn’t have to be garden related either, good designs of buildings, […]

Filed Under: Blog, Inspiration Tagged With: Design, London 2012, olympic cauldron, Thomas Heatherwick

Friday inspiration

March 23, 2012 By Jill Anderson Leave a Comment

Like many designers, I’m always on the look-out for inspiration. Lot’s of different things inspire me, they’re not necessarily garden-related, but they’re always about design.

Filed Under: Blog, Inspiration Tagged With: Design, Friday inspiration, Pallant House Gallery

Why this light bulb is a bit like good garden design

March 3, 2011 By Jill Anderson Leave a Comment

Because at it’s most fundamental, any really good design, be it for a phone a garden or a kettle, must be both practical and pleasing to the eye. Garden designers need to understand all about proportion, scale, context and how a garden plan works in it’s three dimensional form. They must also understand all about […]

Filed Under: Blog, Garden Design, Inspiration Tagged With: Design, sustainability

Watts Chapel- beautiful art and design

March 3, 2011 By Jill Anderson Leave a Comment

If you’re inspired by beautiful architecture, art and design, you’ll love this beautiful little chapel just off the A3 in Compton, Surrey. It’s a small, circular building made from local red bricks, elaborately covered in celtic and art nouveau decoration and has a stunning interior. George Watts was a contemporary of the Pre-Raphaelites and lived in […]

Filed Under: Blog, Inspiration Tagged With: Architecture, Design, Watts Chapel

The R.H.S. Chelsea Flower Show 2010

May 25, 2010 By Jill Anderson Leave a Comment

The Chelsea Flower Show is renowned throughout the world as the most influential garden show, the gardens and plants are seen as indicators of what we will all want to plant in our gardens. There are also lots of great ideas, whatever your size of garden.  It was press day on Monday, so there were lots […]

Filed Under: Blog, Garden Design, Inspiration Tagged With: Andy Sturgeon, chelsea flower show, Design, plants

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The healing, calming power of nature in one photo. The healing, calming power of nature in one photo.
These wonderful autumn colours won’t be around for much longer. But that’s ok, because now is what matters, & their fleeting beauty makes them even more precious.
It’s easy to see how being among trees & nature is so beneficial for our health & wellbeing. 
Have a great Sunday.
Savouring all the autumn colour, & doesn’t it lo Savouring all the autumn colour, & doesn’t it look spectacular with this bold front door.
Today has been hard work, after a lovely time last week in Norfolk. The north coast there is spectacular. Realising these last few months, that there are so many beautiful places here. 
Have a nice evening.
Charming glasshouse at Houghton Hall, Norfolk. Vis Charming glasshouse at Houghton Hall, Norfolk. Visiting to see the Anish Kapoor sculptures, which are amazing, but unprepared for the beauty of the grounds & garden. 
Such a treat, worth coming to Norfolk for this alone!
Hope you’re keeping well, & managing to smile some of the time. x
P.S. more of Houghton Hall & Anish Kapoor on my stories
We stopped off on the way home to pick blackberrie We stopped off on the way home to pick blackberries, after coffee & cake, sitting in the churchyard - the cafe was full, & the churchyard is a quiet, peaceful spot..... as you’d expect.
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One little advantage of lockdown is walking so much more, rather than using the car. Though it shouldn’t have taken something as momentous as this, for me to change bad habits 🙁
Hope you’re weekend is going well.
My hazel arch, a bit lopsided 🙄 using wood from My hazel arch, a bit lopsided 🙄 using wood from a random clump of hazel on the garden. Now looking much better covered in winter squash plants, so you can’t see just how ramshackle it is. I like to think it has a certain home-spun charm .

Great for small space gardening, imagine how much room you need to grow these without vertical supports.

I’ve got 2 Uchiki kuri, lovely nutty flavour.
1 Turks turban, for its flamboyant shape & colours, though it also tastes good.
One unknown, grown by my grandsons in their homeschooled science lesson.
Close-ups of the squash over on my stories.
Stay cool my friends x
I wanted to show you this lovely lily ( Lilium reg I wanted to show you this lovely lily ( Lilium regale) which is flowering right outside our bedroom window. 
It gets sun for about 4 hours only, you can order the bulbs now for planting in September. It’ll reappear every year & waft delicious scent around your garden, or through your windows.
Have a very happy Monday x
It’s British Flower Week, there’s a lot to be It’s British Flower Week, there’s a lot to be said for fabulous seasonal flowers that haven’t travelled thousands of miles ...... & are wonderful for biodiversity
A bit of rain, nice long days (it’s almost mid-s A bit of rain, nice long days (it’s almost mid-summer!) & it’s, mostly, all growing nicely.

Spinach, courgettes & garlic in shot here. 
Enjoy the rest of your Sunday x
Hope is a decision I’ve thought long & hard abou Hope is a decision
I’ve thought long & hard about how to view the tumult in the world we’re living in now. 
The only thing that works for me, is to choose hope.

It’s a tall order, but avoiding mainstream news & speculation helps avoid the anxiety, that’s often waiting in the wings.

One day soon there’ll be grandchildren clambering over this again.
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