When I took on the upkeep of the garden last August, there wasn’t any bindweed that I saw but this trip was astonished to find the bindweed had taken over! … Continue Reading

It became apparent this trip that the focus of my time here is now changing from making an artist garden to utilising the garden as outdoor studio.  Gardening as an… Continue Reading

I visited magical, mossy Little Sparta, Ian Hamilton Finlay’s greatest work of art, as part of my research into artist’s gardens (set in the Pentland Hills, near Edinburgh). Above, are… Continue Reading

My RHS bursary included a research trip to the world’s oldest topiary gardens, Levens Hall in Cumbria, to think about ‘living sculptures’ and biomorphic shapes (as there’s lots of box… Continue Reading

Thanks to the RHS Bursary, I was also able to attend this conference at Garden Museum.  Speakers included: Neil Davidson, Landscape Architect/J&L Gibbons re Urban Nature Project at the Natural… Continue Reading

I received an RHS Bursary to do some research into artist’s gardens as part of this residency.  The first trip was to see the gardens at Charleston (Lewes, Sussex), the… Continue Reading