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

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

Tremenheere Gardens in Cornwall features a unique all-year-round garden with a subtropical emphasis, showcasing exotic plants like palm trees, tree ferns, succulents, and bamboos. The gardens’ structural planting scheme and… Continue Reading

The Time Garden at Cosmic House is designed by landscape designer Maggie Keswick Jencks at the home she lived in with her husband Charles Jencks. Just as the house has… Continue Reading

I received an RHS Bursary to do some research into artist’s gardens as part my residency at The Grange Projects.  The first trip was to see the gardens at Charleston… Continue Reading

The gardens at Lawson Park (headquarters for Grizedale Arts) comprise over 5 acres of biodiverse meadow, fruit and vegetable production and decorative gardens, overseen by head gardener & artist, Karen… Continue Reading

Brantwood offers a fascinating insight into the world of John Ruskin and the last 28 years of his life spent at Coniston.   Famous as a writer, artist and social reformer,… Continue Reading

Images shot on film, 2002. British painter, theatre designer and film maker Derek Jarman’s garden exemplifies all our garden themes of life, hope, home, work and beauty.  Jarman worked his… Continue Reading