by Laura | 9 April 2026
It seems like only a few weeks ago the garden was fast asleep, then a few stirrings and then BOOM! Look at this, still in March! Gardening is fabulous, the roses are budding, there is blossom everywhere, seedlings are going mad, what a world, another year under way....
by Laura | 24 March 2024
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...
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...
by Laura | 2 April 2022
Joanna came to Oxford to give a talk and she was so brilliant, interesting, supremely eloquent, razor sharp and wittier and more elegant than ever! ← York stone Finding English oak planks → Back to Other...
by Laura | 30 March 2022
Here are three photographs from a fabulous quarry I recently visited near Bradford in West Yorkshire. Wonderful, friendly, warm hearted people made me so welcome. Their skill and dedication I know I am going to always remember. My journey was to find British stone,...
by Laura | 1 March 2022
In an off-the-beaten-track corner of Rome a week ago, I realised that the layers of living, shown here by the excavation, have a quality which is present in so many of the gardens where I work. How many untold years have people cultivated this soil before? Who were...
