Category Archives: romantic escape

wild flower meadow

The wild flower meadow at the wilderness project seaford allotments is flourishing this summer. This is its first year and I sowed it in sections in spring >>>

relaxed planting on an old priory site

The route around the garden of brick and paved paths leads to various seating locations. A new lawn gives breathing space from the plant densely planted borders. A fresh green beech hedge provides cool screening in summer and warming tones in autumn. Deciduous trees and shrubs are used as focal plants… >>>

repurposing stonework and encouraging wildlife

I designed this wildlife garden in Worthing, West Sussex. The brief was to introduce vertical interest within an empty ‘L’ shaped garden. The clients love Monet’s Giverny garden and they wished the design to include a sense of this garden’s opulent planting and water. Trees dominate the boundary, and provide an essential shelter belt to filter… >>>

through the looking glass: a surreal garden of distortion and scale

A sense of child-like fun leads this fantasy town garden project. The client’s obsession with the story of Alice in Wonderland led Carol to prune and train the four metre Taxus baccata bush into a rabbit form. Pruning topiary in this way takes a few years. The skill is to stylise the shape simply into the desired form. This ‘White Rabbit’ ended up reminiscent of the Playboy logo but this adds to the fun aspect of the living sculpture. It was a garden for ‘grown-ups’. >>>

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