Landscaping for listed or historic properties is not about recreating the past. It is about understanding what gives your house and landscape their character, then introducing new elements in a way that feels appropriate and considered. Your garden is part of what makes your home special. Its mature trees, boundary walls, paths and views help
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Landscape design and fashion share a close relationship between creative vision, material understanding and skilled artistry. Both explore proportion, colour, texture and movement, with the finished result shaped by collaboration between designers and the specialists who bring their ideas to life. Rome’s National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art explores this process in After Steps
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In our previous article, What is a Circular Economy?, we explored how recycling and repurposing can reduce waste and support global sustainability. But how can these principles be applied to individual gardens? Advances in design technology are allowing landscape professionals to calculate carbon emissions, assess material quantities and model complex site conditions before construction begins.
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Some of the most rewarding garden design and landscaping projects we’ve worked on began with a property that had decades of growth. When reimagining a garden, it could be tempting to clear everything and start with a blank canvas, but the most considered redesigns often do the opposite. If there’s a hundred-year-old cedar, a yew
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After we’ve held an in-depth initial consultation with a client and completed the full site survey, our team moves into the design process and creates the proposal. This is the stage where a client’s garden design aspirations, and how the outdoor space will work throughout the year, start to take visible form. I always enjoy
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When clients are in the process of planning a house extension or renovation, we often find that the garden design gets left until much later in the conversation. Attention goes on creating a statement kitchen or spa bathroom, and the garden is treated as something they’ll get to once the dust has settled. It’s an
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It’s likely that, as long as you can remember, spring has been the season to turn your attention to the garden. A time when gardeners might be making plans, drawing up planting lists, and setting ambitions for the year ahead. In a recent statement, The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) called on gardeners, and professionals who
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A garden truly comes into its own the moment a client starts living in it, not just looking at it. That’s what any redesign, landscaping project or new terrace should be working towards. When we first talk to clients, it’s never long before the patio versus lawn question comes up. But the starting point is
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Outdoor furniture shouldn’t be an afterthought, but a critical part of your garden design. We consider it alongside the structure of the planting, the positioning of a glasshouse, the light bouncing off a water feature in the morning, and the route between the house and the best spot to relax. In this blog, I share
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Whenever we start working with clients on an extensive garden project or significant redesign, they often bring along a wish list. It might include a swimming pool, an outdoor kitchen, a pergola, or a glasshouse. All these features have real merit, but it’s worth clarifying your priorities first. We always return to one question: how
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