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Sculptural Log Store or Bug Hotel ?

I've had another busy week, designing a garden for a family in Tunbridge Wells as well as some interesting visits to new clients and existing clients. I have ordered our first autumn planting palettes for September - 1st  job in Mersham, Ashford the other in Hartfield in the Ashdown Forest  and met a client at a nursery to choose a few key specimen plants for a garden in Sevenoaks, so a busy busy week. greencube's Sculptural Log Store Who would want a a standard log store when they can have one of these? A log store for my wood burner that keeps me warm in winter in my working studio doubles as a sculpture in my meadow garden.  I found an image on pinterest, tweeked it a bit and had it made by a local metal fabricator. Clayton and Neil of Quest Landscapes kindly delivered it to me yesterday and concreted the holding post, here's the finished item, a big thank you to Darrin Williams who made it up with mild steel, its already rusting as hoped after the l...

Late Summer Colour and Interest in the Garden and Quartz wall uplit at night

Foeniculum vulgare purpureum planted with Calamagrostis 'Karl Foerster' Aster frikartii 'Monch' Stipa gigantea with Pittosporum 'Tom Thumb, clipped balls The seed heads on the stipa this year have been amazing, described by visitors as an exploding firework Looks great at night with the uplighters on the wall Quartz Retaining Wall Here we mixed the quartz wall with green oak on end Buxus sempervirens with Pennisetum alopecuroides 'Hameln' Garden designed and planted by greencube Wall built by Clayton of Quest Landscapes Lighting by Oakleigh Manor Lighting Ltd