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...
Norham This grand Oxford house had absolutely nothing remaining in the front garden after the builders had left, apart from the two big trees. To begin, we planted a pair of white magnolia trees either side of the entrance steps, to make a stairway to heaven, with...
Canal House Hotel We were so lucky to be given this garden to work on, and being half Dutch Holland is a home from home for me. It was also a chance to improve my somewhat rusty Dutch speaking! The brief was to design and manage the building of a large garden for a...
A Productive Garden A garden with space to graze and munch from, and find flowers to pick, is so much more fun! Plant for seasonal foraging! Wild garlic and different salad leaves, rhubarb, herbs, figs, grapes, raspberries, apricots and strawberries picked fresh in...
Town Garden in Spring This garden was designed to be at its best in the spring and early summer when the family were all there. It was long abandoned and overgrown, but the soil turned out to be beautiful! We needed to make it as private as possible, be home to a...
