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Diary of A Somebody
Posted: Thursday 17 May 2012
Follow my pre-Chelsea blog all this week in the Financial Times. You can read more here
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Time to Plant
Posted: Thursday 17 May 2012
We're battling with the elements to finish the RHS Chelsea garden...more blogging from the show-ground for The Guardian here
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There's no business like show business..
Posted: Thursday 10 May 2012
We are finally at the RHS Chelsea show-ground...well sort of, and raring to go. Read my first Chelsea blog for The Guardian here
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A little Renaissance Booster..
Posted: Thursday 26 April 2012
More musing on my RHS Chelsea garden in The Guardian. Read more here.
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Punica, Poppies and Peach Blossom
Posted: Thursday 5 April 2012
Keeping tabs on my RHS Chelsea plants is a full-time job...but there's always time for the veg plot. Read my latest blog for The Guardian here.
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Can a minimalist garden be classical?
Posted: Friday 23 March 2012
Can a minimalist garden be classical? I mean, would it date? Read my musings in my latest blog for The Guardian here
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Cold, colder, freezing.
Posted: Thursday 16 February 2012
Dreaming of bright Provençal sun in the middle of Winter...read my blog for The Guardian here.
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Planting in Suffolk
Posted: Tuesday 24 January 2012
I thought that recent weather might have somewhat impeded progress on this wet clayey site. But I was delighted to see that I was wrong and that the garden is beginning to take shape.
I love the topiary, my intentions are that it reflects the billowy nature of the trees on the other side of the valley. The final planting scheme will be minimal using grasses such as Amenanthele lessoniana and bulbs
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Just a matter of time..
Posted: Wednesday 28 December 2011
My latest post for the Guardian Gardening Blog went up this week. You can read it here.
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New Blog for The Guardian
Posted: Tuesday 29 November 2011
I am really enjoying writing my new blog for The Guardian's Gardening pages. You can read my first post here.
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Tree planting in Suffolk
Posted: Wednesday 26 October 2011
Tree planting in Suffolk – a race to get them in before the predicted downpour.
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BBC Blog
Posted: Tuesday 10 May 2011
I wrote about my Chelsea garden for the BBC Gardening Blog, read my posts here
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Granite rivulets progress
Posted: Wednesday 30 March 2011
Granite rivulet sequence at De Lank Quarries, Cornwall. Click to see more pictures.
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Buckinghamshire Project
Posted: Thursday 17 February 2011
Mud, mud, glorious mud - I went to see how our Buckinghamshire project was coming along.
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Grey Day in Suffolk
Posted: Tuesday 25 January 2011
A site visit to check progress on my coastal project in East Anglia show that the deck is nearing completion. I wondered down to the bottom of the garden to take in the estuary view. In spite of it being a pretty miserable day, there is something quite ethereal about the light across the mudflats.
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Chelsea Flower Show pavilion
Posted: Friday 21 January 2011
The Cheeswrings on Bodmin moor have always captivated my imagination; steeped in folklore with lots of strange goings on, involving giants, witches and druids.
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Chelsea Flower Show
Posted: Friday 21 January 2011
I am trying to recreate the tiny rivulets that appear on the beach at low tide - something that I found intriguing as a child. I am working with Water Wizard Andrew Ewing to try and get this look that is also classy enough for Chelsea Flower Show
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Big Decks
Posted: Wednesday 12 January 2011
We have a wonderful project on the East Anglian coast and the build phase has just got underway, as part of our service of overseeing the build, I went along to see how things were progressing.
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What did you do this Christmas?
Posted: Tuesday 4 January 2011
On Boxing Day, I headed out to our small cottage in Umbria to begin work on the garden. At the moment, it is one hectare of oak woodland (mostly Quercus pubescens) and scrubby grass. My mission is to turn it into a holiday friendly place with minimal impact on the woods.