01 March 2018

My ‘Designer Plant’ of the Month for March 2024 is an evergreen sub-shrub called: Euphorbia characias subsp. wulfenii . (Spurge).

05 February 2018

My ‘Designer Plant’ of the Month for February 2024 is a deciduous shrub called: Cornus sanguinea ‘Midwinter Fire’. (Dogwood)

11 May 2015

My Show Garden is completed. For more details of the garden, the RHS award and pictures please visit the ‘Show Garden’ section.

16 April 2015

Day one of the ‘Out of Darkness’ Show Garden Build at Malvern and things are progressing nicely.

13 April 2015

Officially today is the first day of the build of our ‘Out of Darkness’ Show Garden for the RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2015.

01 March 2015

Planning is well under way for our ‘Out of Darkness’ Show Garden for the Malvern Spring Festival 2015. May I present the final design....

25 November 2014

In May 2015 I will be designing and creating my first full Show Garden at the RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2015, along with my colleague Lisa Burchill.

19 November 2014

Why haven't we all got green roofs? Green or Living Roofs can provide both aesthetic and environmental benefits for any building whether in a urban area or a built up rur...

04 November 2014

How to have your garden professionally designed and built, with all the additional benefits this brings, and all 'effectively' for free.

22 October 2014

Is your garden an inviting maze of pathways and hidden corners or just an open patch of grass with an all too obvious boundary, leaving nothing to the imagination?

18 September 2014

I spent the day yesterday volunteering on the early build stage of a show garden designed by Caroline Tatham: 'A Brave New World of Beauty'.

11 September 2014

My latest design (above) provides an opportunity to look at one of the key tools I use as a Garden Designer to create a sense of harmony between house and garden.

10 July 2014

My third Show of the season is the Hampton Court Flower Show 2014 in its usual impressive setting by the banks of the River Thames on the outskirts of South West London.

23 May 2014

The garden build is completed and already the garden is starting to come into its own.

20 May 2014

End of May means it's time for the UK's biggest garden show: Chelsea 2014

09 May 2014

My first garden show of the season is the Malvern Spring Show 2014.

28 April 2014

Progress: Some planting done and turf starting to root.

14 March 2014

More progress is made. Steps are built, gravel and turf is laid.

19 February 2014

Building is underway on the Northamptonshire cottage garden, featured in my portfolio under Small Cottage Garden for a Young Family.

01 February 2014

The building is about to start for a garden I designed for a young family in Northamptonshire.