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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »