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The Beauty and Excitement of These Free Plants
In the summer we have the most beautiful woodland walkway of “Common Turk Caps Lilies” or “Martagon Lilies” or in Latin Lilium martagon. They really do give the most stunning, elegant, blushing-pink...
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Gardener’s Salaries
The Professional Gardener’s Guild devised a recommendation salary guide for gardeners. I hear that the Royal Horticultural Society are going to be the first to try and bring their wages up to the mark,...
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Topiary Trimming Time
The big geometric dove is being trimmed. We are having to prune the Magnolia quite a bit too so to let the light through to the tail. It takes about 4 weeks for us to trim all of the large topiary...
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Leaving Radway Grange
After six and half years managing the beautiful gardens of Radway Grange I have now moved on to pastures new. Below is a picture of me saying farewell to the lovely family and my wonderful colleagues....
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The Language of Plants
‘Half of Us Chat to Our Flowers’ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3178034/Half-chat-flowers-Gardeners-admit-following-Prince-Charles-s-lead-believe-helps-plants-grow.html I absolutely love...
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A 3D Sketch of my Latest Garden Design
My inspiration for this one strangely came from Earth orbiting the Sun. When I look at a garden to be designed, I tend to think of shapes that will sit-in and compliment the garden overall first. My...
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The Wonderful Happy Feeling that Professional Horticulture and Garden Design...
I have always wanted to make my work part of my life, in other words; I want to enjoy my work so much that I cannot tell anymore if I am working or not. With all of the hard work I have done, I am...
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There’s something about sitting in your local establishment with wifi, magazines and your favourite sketching software. I have movement and herbaceous plantings in mind travelling through the colours...
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Looking for Classic Contemporary Design Inspiration
It has been a little bit of a whirlwind weekend, finding out that my planting design for a long border has a prelimary position at RHS Chatsworth Flower Show 2018. I am thrilled with this challenge as...
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RHS Chatsworth Flower Show 2018 Whirlwind
Writing this little blog, I still cannot believe what has happened the last few months. It all began with a wee email from the RHS, asking if I wanted to come up with a design application for a long...
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