We’ve been in Wales for a week now and I can’t tell you how wonderful it is to wake up to the view over the Welsh Hills.  It never seems to look the same – we’re had all weather’s thrown at us including snow and hail, but we haven’t looked back once.

We’ve had a couple of dramas along the way including no heating on day one and an overflowing loft tank, but we’re getting there slowly but surely and it feels like home already.

One of the challenges we’ve had is setting up broadband as the satellite system we had planned won’t work because the hill at the back of the house is in the wrong place!

So blogging may be a bit tricky for a while but I wanted to keep in touch and ask that you bear with me for a while.  I’ll do my best to post something when I can….there’ll be some news to share soon as I’m doing a show garden at Cardiff in April!

I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and I wish you all a very Happy New Year! Read more

I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and New Year!

All good wishes

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Last weekend I presented the final designs to a client in South Nutfield, near Redhill.  It’s a complicated site with steep levels which always makes for some head scratching but at the same time, gives such scope for a more interesting garden. Read more

I hope you enjoyed the photographs I shared on Wednesday of my trip to Box Hill last Saturday at dawn. Read more

Last Saturday, as it was forecast to be a bright and frosty morning, I got up really early and went to Box Hill to take some photographs. Read more

I wrote a blog post last week about tackling really small gardens which was triggered by a project I’ve been working on in Richmond. Read more

I’ve recently come across these wonderful fire bowls from The Firepit Company.  What better way to encourage you to spend more time out in the garden after dark, even on a chilly evening when you wouldn’t normally sit outside. Read more

I’ve just been working on the designs for a client in Richmond who has the tiniest of gardens, just 25m2 to be precise.  Spaces this small can often be more challenging to design because it’s every square inch counts. Read more

I spent a few glorious hours in Lyme Regis yesterday so I thought I’d share some of the photographs I took whilst I was there. Read more