21st Century Garden Design?
We are – ‘in studio hortus voluptatis’ – in pursuit of garden pleasure. Our approach in this pursuit, is 21st century. So what makes a design 21st century? It has been said that the living today are exposed to more information in one day than an average person in the 17th century is exposed to in […]
‘Building a Dream’ – The Planting
Ugly duckling no more! Despite having been planted just a few months and in some areas a few days, you can really get a sense of what the planting will look like over the next few years. We have a wonderful gardener, Fiona, to nurture the garden with the help of the lovely Steve and Amy over the […]
Building A Dream – It’s Finished!
We have pretty much finished the garden build at the Old Rectory. Thank you to the lovely Jacqui Hurst for wonderfully capturing the garden as it is now, just a few weeks after planting. I have added some before and after shots at the end of this blog but here’s what it looks like now after the […]
Building A Dream – II
Much has happened in the last few months on the Northants project, so I thought I would capture the main points in a simple, ‘Ups and Downs So Far’ blog. Here’s a flavour of what’s been happening a third of the way in. DOWNS Mud, mud, not so glorious mud… And managing water and drainage on a clay site […]
Building A Dream
There’s a project I’ve been working on since November. It has taken several weeks to design and then many more to plan (and the planning is still going on). Among my friends and colleagues, its become known as ‘the big one’. I thought my blog would be a good place for any interested parties (if there […]