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Drifts of perennials… varying shapes and forms for year-round interest… plants to provide nectar and habitats for wildlife… and bountiful harvests for us.

Here is a taster of the sort of work I do.

Plantings including allium sphaerocephalon, oenothera lindheimeri and nigella damascena
Verbena bonariensis with dewy spiders web
Tapestry of perennial plantings with allium sphaerocephalon in the foreground, Agastache foeniculum, Salvia Blue Spire and Verbena bonariensis beyond
Wildflower meadow with red clover and bird's foot trefoil
Rose (Rosa) The Lark Ascending
Wildflower meadow with oxeye daisies in bloom
Spring colour in the garden with forget-me-not, tulips, Euphorbia myrsinities and Euphorbia characias
Spring flowering plants, camassias and aquilegias in bloom with the fresh green of alliums in bud
Spring colour in the garden with tulips, Euphorbia myrsinities and Muscari armeniacum (grape hyacinth)
Drought-tolerant perennial border planted on a difficult slope. Alchemilla mollis and Stachys byzantina in the foreground, taller plants beyond
Wildflowers with wild carrot (Daucus carota) and cornflowers (Centaurea cyanus)
A sunny border with towering Verbena bonariensis, Salvia Blue Spire (previously Perovskia), Oenothera lindheimeri (previously Gaura), Allium sphaerocephalon and Veronica longifolia
Veronica longifolia with Achillea apfelblute
Annual meadow with poppies and grasses
Mixed perennial planting
Newly planted dry shade below a driveway wall. Brunnera macrophylla Looking Glass and Sisyrinchium striatum in flower
Dryopteris erythrosora, a fern for dry shady spots
Biodiversity, a toad hiding at the base of a tree
Raised bed with lavender Hidcote, Salvia Nachtvlinder and Rosa Ballerina
Bumblebee pollinating Nepeta faassenii Six Hills Giant
Rustic woodland firepit
Newly laid out vegetable plot kitchen garden with inexpensive timber edged beds
Newly planted vegetable plot kitchen garden with woodchip paths, which aid biodiversity and soil fertility
Native foxglove Digitalis purpurea
Winter crops with protection against pigeons in the kitchen garden
Clematis Dr Ruppel newly planted against a trellis archway
Kitchen garden abundance with flowering marigolds and nasturtiums alongside edibles
Turks Turban squash growing in a kitchen garden raised bed
Crown Prince (one of the tastiest!) and Uchiki Kuri squash
A complete ecosystem with no pesticides requires patience, but the predators will come, such as this ladybird devouring aphids
Winter crops with protection
Sweet pea Cupani with rainbow chard and flowering leeks
A bountiful harvest of home-grown tomatoes, courgettes and beans
Gravel garden design with mediterranean and drought-loving plants including cistus, lavender and olive. Pizza oven on bespoke brick woodstore.
Lavender stoechas as patio edging in gravel garden
Corten steel water bowl use as a small water feature in gravel garden
Coastal gravel garden with Carex comans, Carex buchananii and Armeria maritima (sea thrift)
Mixed mediterranean shrubs and perennial plantings in a gravel garden surrounding a sunny patio
Coastal gravel garden with Carex comans, Carex buchananii and Armeria maritima (sea thrift)
Grasses, seedheads and evergreen plants in winter frost, providing structure and interest once summer flowering is over
Phormium tenax with frosted leaves
Frost accentuating the beautiful leaf forms of this variegated ivy