You’ve stood at the back door with a cup of tea, looked at the patch of lawn, the wonky shed and the fence that’s seen better decades, and thought, “Right. Something needs to happen here.” Then

Shady Garden Design: Beautiful Plants for North-Facing Brighton Gardens A shady, north-facing garden gets a bit of an unfair reputation. Ask most people what they’d love in their garden and shade rarely makes the list, it’s

The Most Beautiful Grass You’re Not Growing Yet Some plants earn their place in a garden by being useful. Hakone grass earns its place by being gorgeous, and honestly, that’s more than enough reason to plant

From Dirty Pool to Dream Garden: The Complete Redesign of a Wilbury Crescent Garden, Hove Some gardens start as a blank canvas. This one started as a swimming pool nobody wanted to look at anymore. Tucked

Right, let’s have an honest chat about coastal gardening in Sussex. The sea is gorgeous. Nobody’s arguing with that. But if you’ve ever planted something lovely from a garden centre trolley, tucked it in with pride,

If there’s one thing I’ve learned after 20-odd years of doing this job, it’s that Brighton does not do “standard.” No two gardens are ever the same, and honestly? I wouldn’t want it any other way.

A garden designer’s honest verdict (and what I’d do instead) Let’s get the disclosure out of the way early, because it’ll save you reading the rest of my ramblings waiting for the twist: I’m not a

I’ll admit upfront that decking isn’t usually where my attention goes first. Most of my working life is spent thinking about soil, structure and what a border will look like in its fifth year rather than

Here’s my honest verdict on “chaos gardening. If you’ve been anywhere near gardening TikTok this year, you’ll have run into chaos gardening,  the trend where you take a packet (or several packets, or possibly your entire

 Hiring a garden designer is a big decision  and can be expensive. Here are 10 honest questions to ask before you commit, and why each one matters. Choosing someone to design your garden is an important