greencube garden and landscape design, UK

Boy we are busy this month, I'm working over the easter weekend to enable me to catch up a bit. But just had to grab my camera and capture this wonderful moment in my own garden this morning. Here are a mix of tulips including Tulipa Brown Sugar, Tulipa Merlot and Fritallaria Lutea and Euphorbia 'FireGlow'.

We love a challenge and here we were faced with a blank canvas and an awful modern brick wall that spoilt the beauty of this wonderful building in Leigh in Kent. The Barn should be celebrated as it truly is a building of amazing beauty, history and period architecture. This is our second design in Leigh, a very pretty, picturesque village near to Tonbridge. Context was important here, I wanted to be sympathetic to the property and reverted to kent ragstone for the retaining wall, our local stone, creating a large terrace with surrounding planting, softening the hardscapes. The front of the barn (seen below) which originally had just gravel is now seated and softened within its landscape with a chunky oak (painted black) framed border, planted with vibrant Acers, Penstemon, Alliums and Buxus. Gemma @ greencube maintains this garden on a monthly basis, keeping it looking great. This is year 1, I'll return next spring and summer to get some more images. Setting out fo...

We are very busy as always, booking lots of work into our 2017 calendar. We are attempting to establish ourselves in North Norfolk. We have approached the NGS (National Garden Scheme) to hopefully open our small Norfolk garden to the public just for a day. Share our passion with like-minded gardeners. We have teamed up with a small landscaping company and are ready to take on projects. We are also entering 2 gardens into the Society of Garden Designers competition this year. Every year I attend the awards ceremony in London, rubbing shoulders with all associated in our wonderful industry and question why I don't find time to submit some of our wonderful creations. We have some challenging projects and are currently working in the following areas: a medium sized garden in Westerham a large garden in Sevenoaks a very large garden for a new build in Farnborough huge garden in Birling a tiny garden in Bexley moroccan themed garden in Chelsea, London We have lots of garden...

Our Gold winning RHS garden is featured in a newly released book: Vertical gardens compiled by Leigh Clapp and Hattie Klotz. I have been reading it over the last week, great book, full of wonderful ideas, informative, inspiring and a good resource, well done Leigh and Hattie. Good luck with the sales. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vertical-Gardens-Leigh-Clapp/dp/1742578799 greencube copyright 2017

As a designer refreshing my mind and exposing my soul to vibrant colours, different cultures, patterns, textures and light helps to inspire and cultivate new ideas for my projects. Exposing the mind to different experiences is a wonderful thing... this is my excuse and I'm sticking to it. and so I packed myself off to Morocco on Boxing day after cooking for 13 wonderful guests on Christmas Eve and my gorgeous family on Christmas Day. Feeling a little worn out, a bit grey, a bit tired out from planting 5 gardens this autumn, a bit bogged down with lots of new design projects lined up and in need of some vitamin D and some inspiration. I also needed to escape the january sales, rubbish tv and too many calorie loaded chocolates. Am I feeling SAD (Seasonal affective disorder), I think so.... It just so happens we are also designing a Moroccan themed garden in Chelsea for a swedish client and so what better time to escape the grey of the UK, the cold and dark nights and v...