You Want A Show Garden?

Needed a beauty fix. Don’t mean a facial. Drove along the low winding road that edges along the North side of the South Downs. Fuzzy greenery in every shade. Today the majestic Horse Chestnuts… Read More →

Greeness and Apple Blossoms

May is whooooooshing in. Every day the greeness is unfolding. Every year it is quite possible to fall in love with the beech leaves anew. Was loving the garden today even though it… Read More →

The Garden Inspiration and Planning Project

Please find a new simplified element to my garden design business.  CLICK HERE  The Garden Inspiration and Planning Project Hope you like it and let me know what you think and spread the… Read More →

More Plants

Cant stop buying plants. Did a little trip to a tiny nursery up the road and came away with my fist clenched around some lovelies. More catmint to fill some gaps. A little… Read More →

Lovely Long Days

So here we are, nearly end of April and at last every thing is creaking into full swing. In just two weeks everything is growing and budding and have had some lovely long… Read More →

Rustic Chestnut Trellis

Although it remains cold I have had a lovely few days getting things done. I wont list out everything but am very happy with a rustic chestnut pole trellis that we made. Up… Read More →

RIP my little Snake’s heads

Am a tiny bit sad… There is a lovely house not far from here where I walk a lot. It was on the market and I would indulge in moments of ‘it belongs… Read More →

Dreaming on

Why on earth should we have something as passé as a bathroom! I used to bath my baby girl in a galvanised tub in the lowering sun in Italy.. there is no plumbed in tub… Read More →

It is Spring really!

It doesn’t feel like spring at all but it is creeping in very tentatively all around us. Flowering current is not to every ones taste, but I have vivid childhood memories of this shining pinkly… Read More →

Easter chocolate nests

Reblogged from NR11: English Kitchen Baking: Transform breakfast cereal into sweet little treats for the Easter table. These crunchy nests provide something rich and satisfyingly chocolaty for springtime celebrations. Nestled with mini chocolate eggs, expect little ones… Read More →

My Strawberry Talisman

When you are just completely sick and tired of the rain and feeling too cold and damp to even think about hitting the garden, frankly you just gotta bring the floral inside. Queen… Read More →

”Garden design…

”Garden designers do not tend to do a job and then disappear, as an interior designer or architect might. They are in it for the long haul. This means that successful garden designers… Read More →

A Few Lovely Shrubs

I recently went to a talk and first up was a discussion about planting. We edged on to the use of shrubs vs. other planting groups. I have to speak for myself and… Read More →

My Garden Ghost

An afternoon, half term, some solar powered energy (ie being outside and the sun is shining on me), some lying around trash equals a Garden Ghost. Its very odd but I feel like… Read More →

Got Lots of Pots

The growing season is just about upon us and old terracotta pots will just inspire you to get on with it. Even stacked up and empty they look lovely so just imagine how… Read More →

Winter Honeysuckle

So pretty and fresh with flowers like little balls of scrunched up tissue paper and stamens heavy with pollen. Looks lovely planted near a wall so the top can grow up and hang… Read More →