This week we surveyed this large garden in Wanstead East London. A lovely brief for a relaxed and natural garden with a generous children’s play area incorporating long grass, tall plants to play hide and seek between and possibly a willow den.
Looking forward to starting the design next week!
Fire pits have become a popular feature in gardens and I’m often asked to include them in clients designs. As well as providing warmth and extending the use of the garden into the evening they can create interesting focal points, hubs for entertaining areas and double up as simple barbecues, an especially useful feature in …
Following my recent post ‘South Woodford Planting Design’ last week, on a rather grey and drizzly day, I spent a nonetheless enjoyable morning planting up the scheme.
In front gardens, areas you pass numerous times a day, it’s especially important to include a range of evergreen plants to provide year round colour and interest. Anemanthele lessoniana is a fabulous …
I recently visited the RHS London Plant and Design Show at the Horticultural Halls in central London. The show includes stands from a wide variety of specialist nurseries, horticultural suppliers and artistic exhibitors. Here are a few of my highlights.
These fabulous steel sphere sculptures by moore designs can be used singularly or in groups to create …
At the end of last year I was asked by the owners of this house in South Woodford to create a new planting design for their front garden. The brief was to remove the misshapen and uninspiring conifer hedge and create a more natural area of planting that would provide year round interest and be …
Apart from some minor snagging the landscapers have finished on site and the hard landscaping is complete. Planting is due to be carried out in March when the soil has settled down and warmed up a little more.
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I have designed a planting plan for the garden using a palette of nature inspired plants …
