Friday 6th April, 2012
Design day. A little sketching in the morning and some serious displacement activity in the afternoon. It was suddenly essential that I did some power walking along the river in order to have Fantastic Ideas. Eight miles later and all I had in my head was a million practical issues. Next it was utterly essential that my power walk should be followed by a long bath with a glass of wine in our lovely new bathroom. The ideas would just flow!
Thursday 5th April, 2012
Today I chucked out a load more ‘help me please’ emails and made many many more calls, and I got more and more disheartened. I read some blogs by designers preparing for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, all of which sound so exciting! A trip to Italy to source the perfect tree. Except the blog post was dated February. And there was no way I was going to Italy…
Wednesday 4th April, 2012
So I’ve been approached by the RHS to submit a design for a show garden for the BBC Gardeners’ World Live in June…
I’ve always wanted to do a show garden. It brings together perfectly my two careers from my past two decades; theatre design and landscape design. My initial plan was to gain some experience by assisting another show garden designer, and so yesterday I emailed the RHS to find out who might need some help at the RHS Flower Show Tatton Park this summer. Maybe next year I could attempt a small garden of my own…
My MOO MiniCards have arrived, just in time for the Landscape Institute Awards 2011 tomorrow. Each card shows one of my landscape designs. Hardscape have very kindly invited me to the Awards this year, so if you’re going do come over and say hello and pick your favourite card.
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