Way back in May the Wilson McWilliam Studio exhibited a highly acclaimed garden at the Chelsea Flower Show which won a silver-gilt medal. I became very familiar with this garden as I followed it’s progress and wrote a weekly blog post over 10 weeks as it was developed for Chelsea. But the story of […]
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 […]
Garden design ~ some stylish recycling ideas.
One of the benefits of making a garden plan is taking time to think about what you need in the garden and where to place everything, so that you won’t waste time and money changing things later on. As it’s unlikey that your garden is a clean slate, it’s useful to think about how you can […]