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Current projects include: A 2 acre sloping garden near Shaftesbury, Dorset where sculpting of land is being used to creates landform terraces A high spec planting project in Ringwood, Hampshire to match and tone in a contemporary home...
As the cooler autumn nights approach gardeners thoughts turn to the diverse wildlife that relies on the pollen sources and hibernation sites our outdoor spaces offer. However, when people think of wildlife gardens the vision it creates is one of visually unappealing areas left wild and unmanaged with nettles for butterfly pupae, long grass, dank ponds for frog spawn and bundles of twigs for hedgehogs.
The hard lanscaping of the garden in Sixpenny Handley has been finished and the complex phase of planting is about to begin...
The first stage of planting is complete to establish double wave yew hedges that reflect the gentle contours in the stunning landscape views this Berwick St John house enjoys.
Work on the cottage garden in Sixpenny Handley is nearing completion with the raised flint and aged brick beds already up and the flagstone paving being pointed...
In an article taken from 30 Janury issue of Blackmore Vale magazine I look at what garden design means to us today.
I've just completed the redesign of the front and rear gardens of a cottage in Sixpenny Handley.
The concept and planting plan are complete for a new potager for a large garden near Shaftesbury.
I have reached the final in a competition to redesign the frameyard at National Trust property Mottisfont Abbey. My proposals involved bringing together the key productive elements of the Frameyard with the main motifs of Mottisfont Abbey, namely water and roses.
“Garden writing is often very tame, a real waste when you think how opinionated, inquisitive, irreverent and lascivious gardeners themselves tend to be. Nobody talks much about the muscular limbs, dark, swollen buds, strip-tease trees and unholy beauty that have made us all slaves of the Goddess Flora.” Ketzel Levine, American gardening journalist