February 2, 2020
We are proud to announce that Stylus, 116 Old Street was unveiled at the SGD Awards 2020 to great acclaim as winner not only of its public / commercial category but also as winner of the The Grand Award. The judges comment were as follows: “A hugely creative design that has been brilliantly executed demonstrating… Read more »
November 12, 2019
We’re thrilled to confirm that our Stylus, 116 Old Street roof garden project has won a BALI award for the landscape installation. In addition, the project has been short listed for the Society of Garden Designer Awards 2020. Watch this space for further news.
January 4, 2016
I’m thrilled to say that two of the gardens from my Swiss Cottage project have been featured in an end of year article on www.houzz.co.uk . The Most Popular Outdoor Living Photos of 2015 feature the 20 most popular images of outside spaces worldwide. It is most gratifying to have been featured not once but twice… Read more »
November 20, 2015
I have been invited to deliver a key note presentation at the forthcoming Society of Garden Designers Autumn Conference. The theme for the conference is “Small but perfectly formed” and I will be clarifying what a small garden means to a Garden Designer. I will also be looking at some of the problems we are… Read more »
October 12, 2015
John Davies Landscape is thrilled to have made it to the finals of the Society of Garden Designers Awards 2015. The prospect of winning a prestigious award for a second year running is exciting though the competition looks tougher than ever. So with feet placed firmly on the ground, we are looking forward to a great night… Read more »
April 9, 2015
We are thrilled to announce that our Swiss Cottage project has won both Best in Category and Supreme Award at the Association of Professional Landscapers Awards 2015. It was a privilege to work with Mark Gregory and Landform Consultants who have demonstrated why they are placed where they are within the profession. Judges commented: “This is… Read more »
January 31, 2015
John Davies has won the Future Designer Award at this year’s Society of Garden Design Awards for the recently completed project at College Crescent. What the judges said: “Individually, these gardens would be worthy winners, but to have six of such high quality is unusual and hugely gratifying. There is a lot to be learned from… Read more »
November 30, 2014
John Davies Landscape is excited to announce a collaboration with Wilson McWilliam Studio to masterplan a 19 hectare residential development in Beijing. Studio work has already commenced and we’re off to China tomorrow to meet our new clients for the first time, armed with some very exciting ideas and concepts.
January 7, 2013
One of the things that most impressed me on a recent visit to Italy was the carefully considered sense of placement of architecture within the landscape. Again and again you see the exquisite management of the relationship between architecture and garden and of garden and wider landscape. This is perfectly illustrated at the much photographed… Read more »
September 4, 2012
Summer holidays present a great opportunity to discover new places and in particular, new and exciting gardens. Dyffryn Fernant nestles in the shadow of the Preseli mountains in the depths of Pembrokeshire just outside of a village called Dinas Cross where my Father was brought up and where I spent many childhood summer holidays. Perhaps… Read more »
August 2, 2012
Maurizio Vegini, an Italian landscape architect invited me to connect on LinkedIn and so I took the opportunity to have a quick look at his work. He’s nestled into the Italian mountains to the north east of Milan with a studio based in Bergamo. I immediately liked what I saw enjoying the simplified planting palates… Read more »
May 15, 2012
The run up to Chelsea is always a very exciting and inspirational time. It’s fascinating to see the rapid transformation of muddy plots into luxuriant garden spaces and we garden designers get very excited at the arrival of carefully chosen mature tree stock often having come from distant corners of Europe. Pleached trees are a… Read more »
March 27, 2012
Borinda papyrifera was originally collected by Chris Stapleton from the slopes of Mount Zi Ben Shan at around 3300 m in the Yunnan province of China. New culms are a powdery blue-white aging to olive/yellow. Tan culm sheaths are large and hang from the plant in obtuse anglese. Typically reach over 5 metres, the stems… Read more »
January 3, 2012
It was in the last week of November that I ventured into Peckham Rye park to practise a few photographic skills but I soon found myself shooting pics for real. It was such a pleasant and balmy late November day and the soft sunlight was just right. The gardens at Peckham Rye are well husbanded… Read more »
September 12, 2011
As a garden designer I was always trained to have strong responses to the things I liked or disliked. “Nice” was a banned word so when I decided to post on Phyllostachys nigra, I considered entitling it “On the glories and vicissitudes of….” – a bit convoluted perhaps but quite appropriate as this is a… Read more »
September 8, 2011
I’m becoming more familiar with some of the parks of South East London and it was on one August afternoon, that I decided to take the children to Brockwell Park for a breath of fresh air. On such occasions it has become difficult to engineer bona fide garden visits as my poor children have had… Read more »