Recently, I visited the Kent Autumn Garden Show for the first time. I thought that it was excellent. The show is held at the Detling Showground which is near Maidstone and it has everything a gardener would want. It’s organised by WMH Leisure (www.wmhleisure.com) and they also organise the Kent Garden Show in May each year.
To give you a chance to have a look at the show, I made this short film.
I really like Heucheras and I want to use them in a design that I‘m currently working on. At the Kent Autumn Garden Show, I got the opportunity talk to Sean Atkinson from www.heucheraholics.co.uk and he is an expert on this fascinating plant.
This is my second show garden at the Malvern Spring Gardening Show. Last year, I won a bronze medal for my Ornamental Hurst Show Garden. The title of my design this year is “Not any Garden, My Grandma’s”.
My Grandmother sadly passed away a few months ago. This garden design is for her.
Nanny Dunckley suffered from Dementia. When she was a young girl, she worked in her father’s florist shop. Before her illness she used to love gardening too. I have featured some of her favourites such as Marguerites and herbs (rosemary, lavender and thyme) which have associations for the treatment of the illness together with flowers to be sold in the shop. The shop is based on a real working florist set in the late 1930’s in a rural village.
The design is of circles within circles and features two matching borders of perennials and bedding plants. Two symmetrical ponds are set into paving in front of the shop, containing a variety of marginal pond plants. There are three cherry trees (Prunus “Kanzan”) behind the shop.
Thank you for looking at my site. 2010 has been a very exciting year for me and I thought that I would create my own video site to share some of my best moments with you.
Please email me with your thoughts, comments or any questions you might have about my designs.
