Saturday 7th April, 2012
A day off. I stayed over with my brother and sister in law and helped them plant up their garden (designed on a train a couple of weeks earlier). I played with my adorable niece and had a lovely evening eating takeaway and drinking wine. I didn’t open my design folder once… lovely.
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…
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