Cornus Garden Design

01/10/2021

Before and after photos of the recently completed garden design project for my lovely client in Wadhurst. I can't wait to see how it will look when all the planting has settled in.

24/04/2020

Paeonia mlokosewitschii aka Molly the Witch in all her beauty this morning, accessorised with a small matching snail 🐌!

23/04/2020

Near where we live is a secret bluebell wood.

21/04/2020

Just when you think spring can’t get any better, this tree peony appears.

17/04/2020

Sometimes one large pot can have more impact. This one holds 200+ bulbs in layers to flower from early to late spring. Use smaller pots to anchor it and prevent it looking isolated. These are filled with hostas here.

17/04/2020

A number of pots planted with the same mixture of bulbs gives a rhythm which is calming.

30/05/2019

Every holiday we take turns into a plant identification session - so great to see Geranium maderense in its natural habitat. It grows along the levadas, water courses, in deep damp valleys in Madeira. I grew it once at home, marvelling at how it formed a huge clump, flowered massively and fired all its seeds off in different directions before collapsing into a heap, leaving me with seedlings coming up everywhere!

01/02/2019

A new series of posts about my garden. Check back regularly for updates! http://ow.ly/AvEj30nxPJs

My garden in January January 30, 2019 Reading through old posts I realise that I have always talked about specific plants or design styles, and not actually written in detail about our garden here in East Sussex, so for the next twelve months I plan to write regularly about what is happening here. S...

05/09/2018

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My favourite Plant – September September 4, 2018 It’s been very quiet in my Sussex garden this summer – we worked hard in the spring, clearing and planting and growing lots in the greenhouse and cold frames, planting out and feeding, and then with the hot summer, everything slowed right down l...

19/04/2018

Celebrate! Cornus Garden Design has won the 2018 Build Landscape and Gardening Award for Best Bespoke Garden Design Company - East Sussex. I'm so thrilled.

23/01/2018

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Are Statues really "Gnomes for Posh People"? Helen Dillon thinks so - what do you think?

Art for Art’s Sake January 23, 2018 Did you read that wonderful quote in Helen Dillon’s article in the January 2018 issue of the RHS Garden magazine? She mentioned that she had left all her sculpture behind when she moved house because a friend had said that “Statues are just the gnomes of the...

05/12/2017

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It's December, the days are short and the temperatures are falling so give yourself and your garden a rest and enjoy some mid-winter musings....

We have left undone… December 5, 2017 This year I am leaving undone that, which text books suggest, by now we ought to have done. In other words, I...

14/10/2017

The glorious Dahlia 'Labyrinth' is a surprise late delight in the autumn garden.

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My Favourite Plant – October October 14, 2017 We have been away for nearly three weeks and in that time the garden has altered completely....

11/10/2017

Before, during and after planting my latest project for a fabulous Grade II listed house on Richmond Hill. All the stone, compost and plants had to be carried through the house! Now we need to wait for spring - after I've added another 1,000 bulbs....

24/07/2017

Garden gone quiet? Read on to find out how to keep the colours coming.

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Filling the Gap July 24, 2017 “I’m not happy – there’s no colour in my garden” – how often garden designers hear that comment (OK in January you...

20/03/2017

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What do you put at the bottom of your flowerpot and is it really necessary?

Spring is sprung, the leaves and buds are appearing and a gardener’s mind turns to thoughts of pots and containers and the delightful question of...

02/02/2017

So thrilled that my blog post on Perfume in the Winter Garden was shared by the Federated Garden Clubs of Maryland.

31/01/2017

Perfume in the winter garden
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I’ve been thinking about scent in the winter garden recently. Sometimes I can be working away, head down, left brain doing one thing and right...