The front garden of my Wandsworth project has been finished for a couple of weeks, but as it was so dark by the time I’d finished the planting, I wasn’t able to take any photographs.

Last week I popped back to plant the bare root roses so I was able to take some pictures, just a shame that the sun was very low, but I wanted to share them with you anyway…

It really has transformed the front of the house and I think the sawn York stone looks absolutely wonderful.  Here’s a reminder of how it looked before…

The paving was all a bit disjointed, with lots of different materials including granite sets, red brick and pebbles and the planting was really in need of a revamp.

You may remember my earlier blog post about this garden but I thought you might like to see the sketches I put together at the initial design stage.

The idea behind the design was to make the driveway a little wider so that when the car is parked it’s still possible to get to the front door easily.  We also wanted to make the overall look and feel of the garden feel in keeping with the gorgeous house.

So, here are a couple more pictures of the finished garden.  I am really pleased with the finished result and I can’t wait to see how it looks when the planting has had time to fill out a bit.

I presented the concept design to a client in Walton-on-Thames last week and I am now working on the final drawings so that we can go out to tender for the build phase of the project. Read more

I went back to my project in Sutton yesterday and it’s looking really fabulous, even if I do say so myself! The planting has filled out so much in a year and it’s really starting to feel as though it’s no longer a new garden. Read more

This month my Garden Flowers post, which I write with Rona Wheeldon of Flowerona, features Salvia involucrata. It’s a wonderful tall herbaceous perennial that has vibrant pink flowers which appear in the summer and continue well into the autumn. Read more

Finding the right Christmas gift for people can sometimes be a challenge so I thought I’d give you a few ideas of gifts for people who appreciate their garden… Read more

I just looked back at my October highlights and saw all the photographs from our holiday in Cyprus – it sure feels a while since we got back, but I guess that’s the thing with holidays, they soon become what seems like a distant memory! Read more

We spent this weekend looking after my parents nursery in Somerset and despite the horrendous weather (non-stop torrential rain), there was quite a lot in the nursery that is looking great right now. Read more

I went to the Futurescape exhibition at Kempton Park racecourse earlier this week.  It was a show for the landscape and horticultural industries and as well as looking around the trade stands I also attended a couple of the seminars. Read more

You may remember me blogging about this project in Leatherhead a couple of months ago but I thought it would be nice to share the final designs with you too. Read more

As some of you know, I am the co-ordinator for our local Society of Garden Designer’s cluster group and yesterday I met up with the other cluster leaders in our region at RHS Garden Wisley. Read more