Garden design
Rediscover the Lost Art of Observation and Drawing
Is our obsession with phone cameras making us lose the art of seeing? Discover how reclaiming sketching can transform your creativity, regardless of your skill level.
Garden design
Inspiration and insight from gardeners and designers.
Garden design
The Best Possible Taste
The arbiters of good taste in the garden are subject to just as many personal whims as anyone else - including me.
How to
Gardening on the Edge: A Tale from the Chaos of June
Welcome to June, where gardens explode, gardeners implode, and that once perfect spring border becomes gloriously, beautifully chaotic. Perhaps it's time to embrace the mess?
Garden design
Embracing Nature's Riot of Colour: A Gardener's Confessional Journey
Bloom boldly: One gardener's colourful rebellion against horticultural norms. Read the journey from timid novice to passionate advocate for daring hues, discovering the joy of breaking free from 'good taste' & embracing nature's bold colour palette.
Garden design
See Your Garden Anew: The Art of Indoor Perspectives
Add an extra dimension to your garden design, by ensuring that some of the views from indoors are as special as they are outdoors...
Garden design
My Garden Design Approach.
From pencil to PC.
Lawn
The Simple Joy of Lying Down: Why I’ll Never Get Rid of My Lawn
Lawns may be unfashionable in garden circles these days, but you can’t really lie down in a border, can you?
Garden design
All Change? Maybe, But That's Fine....
I wonder if in fact, we are entering a golden age of garden craft
Garden design
Hundreds and Thousands
Fast forward from my park department days to now. How gardening has changed?
Garden design
Lose that Lawn (or at least let it go a bit)
Do yourself, your garden and wildlife a favour and release yourself from the shackles of lawnmowing.
Sustainability
2024: The Year Mother Nature Tore Up Our Gardening Rulebooks!
Nature rewrote the garden rules in 2024. From stressed trees to surprise slug invasions, this year proved "perfect" gardens are outdated. The future? Resilient spaces that flourish naturally
Garden design
Green Walls: Glamorous on the Outside, Troublesome Within
Green walls may be sexy but are they worth the faff and heartbreak?