‘When to let well alone’
You never know exactly what you are going to see when you visit people’s properties in the course of your garden design work. Even with advance descriptions and photographs there is often a surprise, a pleasure, an unforseen asset. In the summer we found ourself walking round a largish garden. The positioning and arrangement of [...]
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Make Time for the Vine!
Am I leading you to drink? I could be! As I reached for the door of a winebar a few weeks ago, I realized that the brass handle was wrought in the style of a vine stem, with leaves and fruits forming its juncture with the door. Sadly I didn’t have my camera with me [...]
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Focus hocus-pocus!
The other day in crisp sunshine Lesley and I found ourselves doing a site survey in preparation for the replanting of a substantial old rock garden…… …… and discussing focal points and verticality. As you do! This discussion was sparked off by 3 splendid, pencil thin, Cupressus sempervirens: In shadow, dark against the sky, [...]
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Underwhelming plants or underwhelming gardener?
On the face of it It was predictable. ‘Red Queen’ stuff. You know the sort of thing: ‘Off with their heads!’ In her last Saturday’s piece: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/gardeningadvice/9027558/Dont-put-up-with-underwhelming-plants.html Anne Wareham, the self styled ‘Bad Tempered Gardener’ says: ‘Don’t put up with underwhelming plants. Plants seduce us into waiting for them to come back to life, when [...]
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