The BBOWT Environmental Educational Garden

by Laura | 2 October 2023

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!...

Setting the scene

by Laura | 29 August 2023

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...

Lookout! New website

by Laura | 14 July 2023

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...

No problem!

by Laura | 21 April 2023

This wonderful tree nursery in north Germany moves huge trees as if they were saplings. Everything is possible, and you can see from the second photograph that you would never know that the tree had just been planted. The choice of trees in every species and size you...

Water Lilies

by Laura | 31 December 2022

Here I am looking small and insignificant in front of one of Monet’s enormous canvases in their gallery in Paris.  The two close up photographs show his magician’s skill in painting at this scale and his complete mastery of colours.  And these were painted in great...

Finding English oak planks

by Laura | 7 July 2022

In deepest Wiltshire, looking for two top rails for a pair of important oak gates, where the grain hopefully would follow the curve of an old design. English oak is completely different from oak grown in any other country, even though it is the same species, Quercus...