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New ‘garden design by post’ service
26 Jul 2015
If a full consultation, design and plant service isn’t what you need I also offer a fixed price design service which has proved popular. This is a service which provides you with a garden design, notes and a Pinterest board of landscaping ideas and planting schemes. We correspond by email…
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My Chelsea Flower Show 2015
24 Jul 2015
My red button team!
Working at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show would be a dream come true for many people but for a Garden Designer it was super-special! This year I’ve been freelancing for the BBC as a horticultural researcher alongside my garden design business in Bristol/Cornwall and it’s been…
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Plants for a coastal garden
15 Jul 2015
My latest article on Intogardens website, all about the best plants for coastal gardens. With beautiful photography by Mark Ashbee http://www.markashbeephotography.com
http://into-gardens.com/feature/beside-seaside/
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Garden writing links on other websites
09 Jul 2015
You can find my garden articles hidden all over the internet!
Here’s one on the Gap gardens page all about the beauty of spring plants unfurling, with amazing photos of course!
http://www.gapphotos.com/GardensBlog/?p=1598
There are several on the Intogardens.com website and app,
http://into-gardens.com/feature/beside-seaside/
http://into-gardens.com/feature/hanging-seedy-side/
http://into-gardens.com/feature/deck-halls-plants-folly/
And even one on the RHS…
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Gardens Illustrated Festival April 18th Malmesbury
12 Apr 2015
Gardens Illustrated Festival April 18th Malmesbury
I am thrilled, slightly bewildered but mainly proud to have been asked to give advice on Garden Design at the sparkly new Gardens Illustrated Festival being held in the pretty village of Malmesbury, Wiltshire. Actually I’ve never been to Malmesbury but Google tells me…
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The Easter bunny - a gardener’s pest.
17 Mar 2015
The Easter bunny - a gardener’s pest
With Easter goodies now filling the shelves I’m reminded of the cute little bunnies that decimate many plants in coastal gardens. My trials and tribulations with rabbits in the gardens of Cornwall prompted research into a list of plants that I have found…
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Previous blogs
11 Mar 2015
Please take a look at my previous blog site which has all sorts of interesting articles, including more about the Chelsea Flower show - ’Musings of a Cornish gardener in the city‘.All new posts will be published here at Ash & Bee!
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Time to get fresh at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2015
09 Mar 2015
Time to get fresh at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2015
Unlike the Show gardens and the Artisan gardens, the Fresh category at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show gets a little complicated. Where I can explain to you the designs and themes of those gardens, the ‘fresh’ have a mind…