A City Garden The possibilities for town gardens are always fascinating. On the one hand they can be a derelict shambles, then, over the wall, inches away, a heaven! William Morris suggested that a garden should be thought of as rooms continuing and leading out from...
A City Garden 2 A season on and so much change! You step into the river at the same place, but it is not the same water! The trees are bigger, some shrubs have got too big and have gone! I have brought new friends in and have had to make room for them! The...
Flowers from the Garden I am immensely keen that throughout the year there should be flowers and greenery to pick for the house. Scented daphne and winter box in the cold dark months, snowdrops, daffodils and cherry blossom in the early spring, tulips in tulip time,...
Oxford Town House This very lovely North Oxford house was built in 1853, of Bath stone, in the style of a villa very particular to that moment. It is semi-detached with a coach house at the bottom of the garden with its own carriageway. The proportions of the house...
Aynhoe Park We worked at Aynhoe Park a few years ago when it was the dramatic and fabulous hedonistic party and wedding venue of its time. It had an extraordinary wild and unique assortment of furniture, architectural plaster work, taxidermy and circus fantasy. The...
