I’ve been presented with a small window of opportunity to apply for a garden space at Chelsea next year. I’ve got a couple of half-cooked ideas, but can only contemplate it with sponsorship. My instinctive style is naturalistic with a contemporary feel, not edgy or uber-modernistic. It would either be a courtyard or urban garden. […]
We picked up our all-important Tatton sign off slip today confirming that we’ve cleared the site and can go home. The paving and walls went to the Levenshume allotment team who arrived in force yesterday with a large van and seemingly limitless energy. Pics and details to follow…. Ged came today to help take the […]
You can set your clock by it – at 4pm on the last day of Tatton Show the heavens will open, and the exhibitors will squelchily haul plants out of the ground and hand bags of plant and mud to passers by in exchange for a few quid. Funny really – they’ll part with £5.00 […]
That’s probably the toughest day I’ve had in my short show gardening career. There were up to 8 of us on site today, painstakingly bringing the garden to completion. We worked till the sun went down, planting, making benches, scrubbing, mulching, edging, painting and tweaking to the end – and we still haven’t finished. Back […]
Apart from a dry spell this morning it’s been raining for more than 24 hours onto ground already wet from rain earlier in the week. It’s still raining – harder than ever now. This really isn’t what we need when we’re building a show garden. It’s hard going to finish the hard landscaping – pointing […]
First day of the Tatton Show build today – Isabelle and I are off to check out our site and mark it up ready for the hard landscaping to start tomorrow. We’re all set to go – just need a spell of good weather. We had heavy rain all last night and the forecast for […]
Some would say I’ve been twittering on for years, but this time it’s for a good reason. This year’s Tatton Show project is The Lunch Hour Garden, co-designed by my friend and garden landscaper Isabelle Brooke, and myself. (Sponsored by top IT secuity company Network Defence and Marshalls plc) It’s intended as an office garden, […]