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tulip time

What an April - so so so busy.

I've managed to stop for a few minutes, grab the camera and take some images of the wonderful Tulips in my own garden, here we have used Tulipa ballerina a lily flowering tulip



and Tulipa 'Dolls Minuet' a wonderful hot pink.



on the terrace, I have placed a couple of water bowls for the birds to drink from


the bug hotel is seasoning well





Meantime the garden we are working on in Seal is almost complete, I must say Langdale Landscapes have done a superb job building the sunken fire pit. It looks amazing. We planted up this garden last week and will return to take some photos once it starts to fill out and flower.



A wonderful social space, sinking the terrace by two steps and creating big built in sofa style
seating area, creating a cozy zone.




We have had some lovely comments back over the last few months on gardens that we have designed, managed and delivered.

Here's a lovely comment from our clients Heidi and Nick in Meopham:

Thank you ever so much for the hard work that you and Gemma put in last week it truly was an amazing transformation!  We are absolutely delighted with your design it has completely transformed our plot and we can't wait to see what it looks like in Summer. 

I found it truly emotional when the plants started to go in I have lived on a building site for so long I could never imagine it would look so wonderful.

I have had lots of neighbours comment on how nice it looks and there was even someone stopped at the top of the driveway this morning taking pictures!!

I visited one of our clients garden's in Otford near Sevenoaks this week, Gemma was carrying out a regular maintenance day. The border looked full of colour.




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