Selecting decorative furnishings for your garden can prove challenging. There are multiple styles of bird feeders, garden objects and furniture available. Many garden feeders are cheap looking, badly made and can visually spoil a well designed garden… >>>
This family loved the style of twentieth century Festival of Britain and wanted to reflect this in their recycled garden design space. Recycling does not reduce the overall budget, as materials need cleaning up and handling and labour costs within the budget can increase. However there is great satisfaction in reusing suitable materials and blending them into… >>>
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… >>>
Nature trailing at the tide mills newhaven along the sussex coast >>>
In previous notebook posts I’ve written about meadow flowers and fruit pollen to encourage readers to grow some specific types of plants to help save our native insects and in turn feed garden birds during the Spring season. Willow, or Salix, is also another important host plant… >>>
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 >>>
With the ever decreasing population of bees in the UK you can still help by planting nectar rich plants for insects. In a relatively formal and traditional garden a very stony lawn that never thrived was an excellent barren soil to sow wild flowers. The clients, Patricia and Eric, invited me to create >>>
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