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Objets trouvees – ‘there’s gold in them there hills’!

Robert — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 06:59:56 +0000

We first looked round a large, and it has to be said, largely wasted, ‘L’ shaped, hillside garden in Clifton many, many months ago. At the request of its new owners we were examining its garden design ‘capabilities’. With a warm southerly slope and distant country...

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Chiantishire UK

Robert — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:04:37 +0000

A few posts ago when discussing one of our current projects we speculated about how we would deal with some ‘over focal’ focal points which took the form of three very splendid cypresses in a tight triangle. Catch the link to that post here: Focus hocus-pocus! Aside from the 3...

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Beautiful in blue

Robert — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:00:25 +0000

‘True blue’ is rare enough in flowers. Most are any colour but! ‘Flowering now’ is rare enough too We are all missing the summer profusion of bloom. ‘True blue’ and ‘flowering now’ is rarer than…….. I don’t know what!...

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‘When to let well alone’

Robert — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:03:06 +0000

You never know exactly what you are going to see when you visit people’s properties in the course of your garden design work. Even with advance descriptions and photographs there is often a surprise, a pleasure, an unforseen asset. In the summer we found ourself walking round a largish...

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Make Time for the Vine!

Robert — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:13:57 +0000

Am I leading you to drink? I could be! As I reached for the door of a winebar a few weeks ago, I realized that the brass handle was wrought in the style of a vine stem, with leaves and fruits forming its juncture with the door. Sadly I didn’t have my camera with me [...]

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Focus hocus-pocus!

Robert — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:44:13 +0000

The other day in crisp sunshine Lesley and I found ourselves doing a site survey in preparation for the replanting of a substantial old rock garden…… …… and discussing focal points and verticality. As you do! This discussion was sparked off by 3 splendid, pencil thin,...

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Underwhelming plants or underwhelming gardener?

Robert — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:29:50 +0000

On the face of it It was predictable. ‘Red Queen’ stuff. You know the sort of thing: ‘Off with their heads!’ In her last Saturday’s piece: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/gardeningadvice/9027558/Dont-put-up-with-underwhelming-plants.html Anne Wareham, the self styled ‘Bad Tempered Gardener’...

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Over the garden wall…..

Robert — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:39:21 +0000

It is always worth a peek around you when you are out and about. Early last summer Lesley and I were visiting a nursery and a casual glance (no lets be honest a blatantly nosey, tip-toeingly precarious, neck-craning peer over a stone wall) revealed this intriguing landscape: The pale trunks of...

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Little and Large

Robert — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:44:01 +0000

I was saying to someone, I forget who, on twitter the other day that I love this time of year. The last few afternoons, gardens have been dramatic landscapes, with exhilarating floods of late sunlight in piercing shafts which are almost blinding: The shadows are deep and dark and completely...

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‘Microclimateology’ – my little plan for global domination

Robert — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:55:10 +0000

OK, I admit it I am responsible for this early flowering stuff. (On twitter everyone is saying how soon everything is coming into flower!) Rest easy, I am not exactly a Bond-style villain for whom heating this world up is part of a cunning scheme to control the entire universe Nor am I personally...

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