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Autumn Colour
Mansard House As a general rule, autumn-tinting plants need sunlight to perform really well; deep shade is hopeless for producing Autumn colour.. If you can plant your tinting trees so that they are backlit by …
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Planting in Difficult Places – The Suffolk Gardens Trust
I will be talking about Planting in Difficult Places on Thursday 9th December for members of The Suffolk Gardens Trust via zoom from 6.00pm, to join the talk visit the website The Suffolk Garden Trust …
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Top 50 Garden Designers
House and Garden magazine have just named their top 50 Garden Designers and I am delighted to be featured in that list of inspiring colleagues. Read more here House&Garden …
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The Boodles Secret Garden – The Press
This garden is certainly the one that I’m most proud of – a fabulous Chelsea, all made possible by the best team ever. Boodles have been amazing sponsors and supported me and my team throughout …
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RHS Chelsea Flower Show
I am delighted to have partnered with Boodles at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show to create The Boodles Secret Garden, inspired by the well-loved children’s story by Frances Hodgson- Burnett, it is a …
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Suffolk Magazine – September 2021
Thanks to The Suffolk Magazine and Jayne Lindill for this article about me, my gardens and The Boodles Secret Garden which I have designed for this year’s Chelsea Flower Show to open 21st-26th …
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Bulb planting in meadows
The soil at Mansard House is far too fertile for the traditional wildflower meadow. Owing to the fact that we are on alluvial flood plain; essentially silty loam. I have managed it as a wildflower …
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Garden Masterclass – Planting in a damp woodland
So delighted to be talking this week on a Garden Masterclass online about PLANTING IN A DAMP WOODLAND – Wednesday 12th May 18.00-19.00. Garden Masterclass is place to learn and share experience and knowledge in …
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Peterhouse calls in landscape designer to overhaul gardens – Cambridge Independent 02/21
Thomas Hoblyn Garden Design is proud to have been chosen to design a new garden for Peterhouse, Cambridge, the oldest of the Cambridge colleges. The three-acre plot is on the north side of Trumpington Street, …