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 »
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 »