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Designing a New Flower Border

Winter 2026 is still in full on downpour but green shoots are emerging and the requests to consider new planting

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Dahlias in the cutting garden

Dahlias in the Cutting Garden

A walled garden in the Severn Vale in South Gloucestershire dating from the 18th century. Cut flowers, soft fruit, espaliers

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Pruning Fruit Trees – Espaliers, Cordons, Fans & Standards

Pruning fruit trees is often said to be a gardener’s favourite job. I wouldn’t disagree. There is a long history

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The Parterre at Barrow Court 2017

Box Moth, Box Blight, Topiary & Parterres

Evergreen Structure for Year Round Interest The strong architecture of clipped evergreens is an important feature for a lot of

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Bespoke Greenhouse for a Victorian Walled Garden Design

Part of the renovation of a designed landscape in the Wye Valley and working with the client on establishing Bloomcliff

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Renovating an Overgrown Pergola

Pruning Climbers on a Pergola A hillside village above Tintern in the Wye Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The

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Renewal pruning a Viburnum x bodnantense

Pruning a winter flowering shrub

Pruning a Viburnum x bodnantense Some of my favourite flowering shrubs, providing successional flowering across much of the year, are

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