Award-winning designer and home gardener, weaving colour into gardens to create vibrant, nature-rich spaces. Join me in cultivating joyful outdoor havens that excite year-round.
How Not to Garden
What begins as hosepipe-ban despair turns into one of the richest conversations they've had: a proper masterclass in secondary and tertiary colour, a working formula for building texture into a border, and a hard look at who you're actually gardening for. Spoiler: it isn't the neighbours.
How Not to Garden
This month, Ann-Marie is not gardening in just any old clobber, not weeding, not lifting a hosepipe. July's dispatch is from the hammock: where Ann-Marie is recovering from a wonderful party.
What Not To Do
Come and not-garden with me! Everything Laetitia and I are leaving well alone this June, with links.
How to
On falling behind, looking closer, and what the garden does when you can’t keep up.
Autobiography
Garden Chic isn't about looking fancy while deadheading – it's finding joy in dressing for a space you love. From my grandmother's influence to my garden lipstick, I'm making the case: your plants make an effort – why shouldn't you?
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Spring
On letting go, sodden soil, and what happens when a garden designer stops designing her own.
Planting Design
My new book is finally here. 40 real combinations from my real garden – and my manifesto for gardening with your heart on your sleeve.
Autobiography
On losing my husband Jules, and where we really find the people we've loved.
Seeds
My kitchen is becoming mission control for my growing addiction AT LAST. Between client meetings and CAD designs, I'm nurturing hundreds of potential gardens, one tiny seed at a time. March is here, and my seed tin is demanding to be opened!
How to
Think your garden's dying back? Think again. Your garden's more alive than ever - it's just gone underground. Nutrient heists, fungal raves, next year forming beneath your feet. That mess you want to tidy? Brilliance in disguise. Look closer...
Garden language
October's always felt weird in my garden - like time's gone sideways. After three decades, I discovered why. The answer involves vernalization, micro-seasons, and something rather magical...
Seasonal
Ann-Marie Powell loves September in the garden: she joins Jane Perrone to discuss why this month marks the real start of your plot's new year.