Videos

I revisit a moment – thirty years ago – that totally reframed my thinking, and continues to influence virtually every design decision I make. ...

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Dan Pearson talks about Covid-19, inner peace, and his recent book – Tokachi Millennium Forest. ...

It’s now 20 years since the publication of Michael McCoy’s Garden. So we decided we’d ‘republish’ it reading one or two entries a day for several weeks. It is one of the few gardening books ...

Michael shares the thinking behind his steppe garden, with ground covers, punctuation and seasonal flushes! ...

A late afternoon stroll around the perennial garden at Stonehill (Woodend, Victoria). ...

Let’s take a tour of the vegetable garden and discuss what’s worked and what hasn’t, from a design perspective. ...

(RE-POST) It’s exactly half my life since I lived and worked with Christopher Lloyd at Great Dixter.  I returned yesterday – a rich, life-giving and pretty emotional moment.   ...

Bettina Jaugstetter (Germany) has created an award winning garden in the carpark of an industrial park. A triumph of low maintenance and high wow-factor. Visit this garden with us on our New Naturalis ...

Barewood, in the Awatere Valley of NZ, is the realised dream of the visionary Caroline Ferraby. Generous, gracious lawns connected by magical avenues, as background to gorgeous colour themed plantings ...

Situated on a former American Army barracks, the recently created Sheridan Park is built around a long sinuous spine of paths, which split and rejoin like a braided river.  Each of the consequent ‘ ...

Winterhome, on the stunning Kekerengu coastline, is a garden of formal, interconnecting vistas that leaves you gasping at the vision and sense of scale of its creator. The ocean views are spectacular, ...

I can’t think of a more enjoyable – or effective – way to learn about garden design than to do so on the road, visiting exemplary gardens with a group of like-minded people. That’s why I’ve ...

Somehow Flaxmere has escaped my many visits to the South Island of NZ.  I’d seen many photos, but nothing prepared me for the epic reality.  The vision, the determination, the sheer grit of creato ...

No gardener I know is entirely satisfied with their garden.  And, curiously, the best gardeners I know are the least satisfied, smug or complacent about their gardens.  They’re always pushing for ...

It’s hard to imagine that it’s even possible that a garden like Trott’s Garden, just outside of Christchurch, NZ, could be created in one lifetime, and by one man.  It’s an astonishing achiev ...

It would be easy to make the mistake of thinking that the bigger the garden, the bigger the design challenge.  But the exact opposite is true.  The smaller the space, the more discipline is required ...

My thinking on planting design has been substantially recalibrated in the last 12 months or so by increased contact with the ground-breaking work of James Hitchmough and Nigel Dunnett, largely through ...