Having spent the day at Sussex Prairies at the end of July (you must go next year)  the timing was absolutely right – you have never seen anything like the tapestry of colours with swathes of grasses and tall perennials en masse as far as the eye could see I thought I would follow the

This lovely late sunshine has brought back memories of a wonderful lunch we had at our friends’ (Sabine and Christopher Hoysted’s) house in Provence.  Sabine is an interior designer but she could equally be a garden designer as her garden just outside St Remy de Provence (Van Gogh country) is delightful and very pretty indeed. 

On our way back from Provence we stopped to look at Chartres cathedral, which is of course magnificent, but which was undergoing alot of renovation so I was delighted to see the beautiful planting to the side of it!  In fact, dare I admit it, as a garden designer I was almost more taken with

We went to see Don Giovanni produced by the English Country House Opera at West Green House last night and what a wonderful evening it was!  A picnic in the beautiful gardens by the lake of this lovely private house owned by the garden designer, Marylyn Abbott.  I urge you to visit her gardens near

This beautiful Wimbledon garden started off as a heavily “shrubbed” (mostly rhodies) and over grown garden.  We stripped out a mass of stuff but still keeping some shrubs (and adding new prettier ones – camellias, roses etc ) for shape and definition in the winter. We have since put in lovely fronds of acers, heucheras,

This is a small tricky little garden (access was difficult – everything came over the wall!), we didn’t do much but we also did alot as the transformation is unbelievable.  Some simple things make all the difference:  good paving, trellising and planting plus small details such as moving and painting the garden shed, getting rid

NO PEACE IN MY GARDEN Summer is now the time when you can sit back and enjoy your garden.   Listen to the sensational blackbird song, enjoy the evening sun after a hard day’s grind, look at your beautiful nail clipped lawn, enjoy the smell of your jasmine and honeysuckle and look at your chosen kaleidoscope