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Why Use Annuals & Biennials When I first started designing gardens I would always be confused as to whether I should use annuals and biennials in my planting scheme. However, as an [...]

I have a passion for Mediterranean plants and gardens. I first started following Dan and Mark on Instagram because they seem to have a similar love for succulents. However, these guys live and [...]

WHAT IS A LIVING WALL? Garden designers use living walls to make use of and green up vertical spaces. They are particularly useful in city gardens where horizontal space might be limited. A [...]

The Relationship between Fashion & Horticulture CREATIVE DIRECTOR TO GARDEN DESIGNER When I changed career from creative director in the fashion industry to garden design, many people asked [...]

The first September Chelsea Flower Show and it was much needed. You could sense the hunger not only amongst us garden designers but throughout the horticultural industry and the gardening [...]

PRINCIPLES OF FOCAL POINTS Whether it’s a contemporary London garden or a countryside estate that I am designing, the principles of design come into play in both. How, where, and what focal [...]

When I created my garden ‘Beneath a Mexican Sky’ at the Chelsea Flower Show in 2017, I clearly remember the moment the space became a garden. It was when the first tree was planted that I had [...]

FERN BIOLOGY Ferns have to be the most under rated plant used in our gardens. Ferns deserve to be more widely used as they provide the green lushness to our gardens. They are the perfect plant [...]

How many of us go off on holiday and return, longing to have a garden with the lush greenery and foliage of the places that we have visited? With our climate getting warmer, there certainly seems [...]

I have always wanted to live and garden by the sea. There is something liberating about the sense of space, wonderful light and heightened awareness of the seasons at the coast. This, plus the [...]