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. […]

A sharp shower has sent me scurrying for cover and coffee and a welcome chance to blog. Chelsea is as classy as ever – I’m surrounded by well-dressed women and listening to a constant sound track of flettened vowels – but there’s a welcome sense of self-awareness and humour. The banker’s garden, with its monopoly […]

It’s like 2007 all over again – dryish during the hard landscaping phase, then wet, wet, and wetter through planting. It rained most of yesterday and all last night. Forecast for today and tomorrow is showers and then for heavy rain on Monday. Add to that a forecast of 30mph winds this afternoon and it […]