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My final visit of this residency period.  Tasks completed: Removed collapsed dead stems. Pruned jasmine/hard pruned climbing rose. Weeded paths. Created more deadwood piles for habitats. Planted Crocosmia ‘Carmine Brilliant’,… Continue Reading

My final RHS Bursary research trip was to Barbara Hepworth’s Sculpture Garden in St Ives, Cornwall. By chance, I caught a fortuitous talk on the relationship between music and her… Continue Reading

I attended a topiary workshop with topiary artist Charlotte Molesworth at her incredible garden in Benenden, Kent, which included a tour of the garden that Charlotte and her husband Donald… Continue Reading

Vietnamese coriander – Persicaria odorata Sculpit/Stridolo – Silene inflata (Bladder Campion) Musk mallow – Malva moschata Korean Aster – Doellingeria scabra (Aster scaber) Welsh onion – Allium fistulosum Red plantain… Continue Reading

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