‘New small garden’ book published by Frances Lincoln features a Carol Whitehead garden design. ‘New small garden’ is written by prolific garden author Noel Kingsbury . It is visually recorded by Dutch lifestyle photographer Maayke de Ridder. The book illustrates how a selection of garden owners and designers have created small garden spaces. This useful text has become a… >>>
These artistic clients needed a studio building to work from home and the garden design for this seaside garden was created around the route to this workshop. Inherited overgrown boundary hedges, trees and lawn, created a dark and depressing tunnel through the space. >>>
A garden for a young professional couples first home, with only a very tight budget, presented a challenge. With careful design and layout, the space became a more intimate, attractive and practical green space next to the busy inner city railway line. The first job was to deal with the privacy issue from the train bridge… >>>
I was hired to help the pupils at William Tyndale Primary School, London N1, reclaim their playground space and start learning about the Grow Your Own process. The playground around the school had already been planned by a landscape company so I was faced with… >>>
Growing fruit trees and soft fruit bushes in your garden could be critically important in helping our native honey bees survive. The pollen from apple trees, gooseberries, raspberries etc is a valuable source of late spring nectar and pollen for bees. Other insects feed on the foliage, flowers >>>
This ornamental kitchen garden is featured as a case study in a recent Frances Lincoln publication called New Small Garden, written by Noel Kingsbury. Space is premium in these Victorian terraced houses urban Hackney, so every part of the design must earn its place. An asymmetrical garden design layout was used for this urban kitchen garden with paths… >>>
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