Objets trouvees – ‘there’s gold in them there hills’!
We first looked round a large, and it has to be said, largely wasted, ‘L’ shaped, hillside garden in Clifton many, many months ago. At the request of its new owners we were examining its garden design ‘capabilities’. With a warm southerly slope and distant country views so close in to the centre of [...]
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Chiantishire UK
A few posts ago when discussing one of our current projects we speculated about how we would deal with some ‘over focal’ focal points which took the form of three very splendid cypresses in a tight triangle. Catch the link to that post here: Focus hocus-pocus! Aside from the 3 existing cypresses there are [...]
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Beautiful in blue
‘True blue’ is rare enough in flowers. Most are any colour but! ‘Flowering now’ is rare enough too We are all missing the summer profusion of bloom. ‘True blue’ and ‘flowering now’ is rarer than…….. I don’t know what! Lithodora rosmarinifolia has just stood a winter test. It hung its flowering heads on saturday in [...]
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‘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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