Gardens and plants are so photographic, and here is the proof of it! I so often say, “a photograph is better than a thousand words”. When I am beginning to work with a new client, I ask them to look out all and any photographs that appeal to them, and I will do the...
These two paintings date from 1873 and 1874, when Renoir was just 32 years old. In a gallery full of wonderful paintings, they just knock you over. The picture of ‘Lilies in a Jar’ by Matthew Smith, an English painter who studied with Matisse in Paris,...
Not a day to lose, October is bulb planting time and also November! The choice is extraordinary. You can have the most amazing colours of disco lights and fireworks from January to July! In the garden, pots, lawns, woodland, house, roadside, anywhere! Bulbs and corms...
The task was to bring new life to the BBOWT Environmental Education Centre at Sutton Courteney, on land leased from Didcot Power Station. BBOWT is the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust. What a great name, once heard always remembered!...
The whole world is a play! When you get an entrance right like any of these, with such a strong sense of invitation, one is drawn in. Even the dark green gates, you want to know what is behind. Such beauty, such poise, such high art in all of them, rustic country...
Here is the wonderful Emma DeBanks! who has pulled it all together and it was quite a pull! Without her, it wouldn’t have been possible. Micky Harris, and his son George of DMD have been incredibly patient and accommodating, I know I have driven them to edge of...
