There really is nothing quite so satisfying than recycling food, garden waste and suitable packaging waste, into the most amazing compost to feed back to your garden soil – perfect! I literally would not be without a compost heap of some sort and there is...
Ornamental Grasses are an amazingly diverse group of plants that are invaluable in plant design. They offer so much to gardens providing structure and form, beautiful panicles in many different sizes and shapes, they highlight the rhythm of the seasons and most importantly for me,...
One of my most favourite times of the year in the garden has to be September when the sun is a little lower in the sky and the early morning and late afternoon light extenuates the colours of late flowering perennials and shrubs. During garden...
June always proves to be an extremely busy month with design work, planting and maintaining my own garden. As they say, ‘gardens are never finished, they are ever evolving’ and with that in mind always make time to revisit gardens that I have designed and...
May has to be my favourite time of year as the growth in the garden is exponential and the emergence of new foliage is so rapid you could almost watch it. The fern fiddles are unfolding, the apple blossom is in full bloom and there...
At this time of complete uncertainty and worry as a result of Covid-19 turning to the garden can give an amazing amount of solace. Whilst being at home for the foreseeable future I appreciate having some outdoor space more than ever. When feeling overwhelmed with...
January can be a testing time in the garden but a walk outside is always rewarded with a frosted leaf in the early morning, winter bulbs such as yellow aconites and the much loved snowdrops and Hellebores. Bravely flowering and new shoots appearing. Allium foliage...