A few years ago, I visited Bilbao, and I found almost as much delight in seeing Jeff Koons’ subversive and witty giant ‘Puppy’, as I did from the setting of Frank Gehry’s famously sculptural Guggenheim Museum. Koons plumbs the … Continue reading
When I last visited Hestercombe 20 years ago, there was one great historical garden of note, the famous Lutyens garden, the Great Plat. Now there are two. The older one, the Georgian Landscape Garden was so badly overgrown that it … Continue reading
It is probably fifteen years since I last visited Cottesbrooke, and it is exciting to see the changes that have been carried out by a succession of talented designers and an enlightened client. Gardens are dynamic, and herbaceous and … Continue reading
I have to admit I write about gardens I have been to several times, gardens that excite and inspire me, and ignore the numerous ones that don’t. Earlier in the year I came away from a garden feeling even more … Continue reading
After an absence of six years, this was my second visit to Vergelegen, and I am always encouraged and excited to see a garden where new developments have taken place and the garden is still evolving; but this is also … Continue reading
Passing through deep-cut narrow Surrey lanes winding through tunnels of beech woodland, my first memory on arriving at Vann was of being confronted by a 12 year old boy whizzing round on a tractor, cutting the car park’s long meadow … Continue reading