by Annabel Bridge | May 27, 2021 | Garden Inspiration
We sometimes get clients saying to us, ‘We’ve only got a small garden. I don’t suppose you can really do anything for us?’ This is so not true. We love working on small gardens, they have their own special qualities. When imaginatively and sympathetically designed...
by Annabel Bridge | Apr 1, 2021 | Garden Inspiration, Gardens
Now is the time of year when our garden at last starts to fill out, the gaunt bare days are at an end. Soon the trees will be in leaf, the joyous daffs and tulips will be joined by the annuals, the shrubs and ornamental grasses. Borders will become a riot of colour....
by Sarah Johnson | Jan 21, 2021 | Garden Inspiration, Uncategorised
I’ve been listening to Sandi Toksvig’s Hygge on BBC Sounds– an excellent podcast, I recommend it. She and her guests are in a virtual log cabin in Denmark, talking about what the Scandinavian word ‘hygge’ means to them. It turns out that it’s quite a wide-ranging...
by Annabel Bridge | Dec 29, 2020 | Garden Inspiration, Gardens
It’s fascinating to look at contemporary garden design, which seems so hugely varied yet somehow keeps popping up with the same ideas, and tease out the threads of the older, classic garden design styles. So let’s take a stroll through some of the most famous and...
by Annabel Bridge | Nov 11, 2020 | Garden Inspiration
When we think of garden design we usually think about gardens created by professionally trained designers. Gifted and qualified people who have studied traditional and contemporary design, and understand plants and landscaping. The more famous are often found on TV...
by Annabel Bridge | Oct 3, 2020 | Garden Inspiration, Gardens
…and relax. Yes that really is in a community garden! We recently blogged about setting up a relaxing, convivial space for autumn evenings in your garden. However we closed with acknowledging that many people don’t have gardens at all. So we realised that in these...
