Posts Tagged ‘Lisa Cox Garden Designs’

I am thrilled to finally be able to share some pictures of my finished RHS Cardiff Flower Show garden for Victoria Park Mazda entitled “A Front Garden” I’m thrilled to tell you that we were awarded a Bronze medal.

After all the hard work and VERY long days I felt a little disappointed yesterday that we didn’t get a better medal, but the public’s response to the garden and bright vibrant planting has been absolutely brilliant and today I have a renewed energy because I’ve created a garden that people can relate to and that they can take inspiration from.

The whole experience of designing and building a show garden has taught me loads – it’s been challenging, uplifting, exhausting, stressful (at times) and rewarding all rolled into one.  I’ve enjoyed almost every minute!

So I’ll leave you with some more images of the garden and hope that the vibrant spring planting makes you smile too…

If you read my blog regularly then you’ll know that the construction phase has commenced at one of my projects in Leatherhead.  Sods law it rained the minute the garden was stripped out and this means that the conditions on site are now a bit challenging. Read more

I thought you might like to see the concept design and sketches I have put together for a client in Twickenham.  I have known Rob for a long time because we used to work together in the City. Read more

It was the last day of the Chelsea Flower Show on Saturday and another hot and tiring day, but somehow knowing that it was our last gave us an extra burst of energy and by the time the show finished at 5.30pm we really did feel quite sad to be dismantling the stand.  It was a really brilliant week and we got such amazing feedback about the design and the craftmanship of the products that English Garden Joinery were showcasing – we even had someone interested in buying the whole stand! Read more