Small Perthshire Country Garden

This lovely country garden in the depths of Perthshire has really been transformed.   It was blank area of lawn and now it is a delightful walled terrace that compliments the landscape beyond.  It creates a cosy entertaining space to catch the sun, eat, drink and be merry while enjoying the spectacular views.  The walling […]

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Homes & Interiors Scotland Article

Please read the March/April of Homes & Interiors Scotland issue to see an article on Allangrange garden, a fabulous garden design project I was involved with on the Black Isle in 2014. Now that the garden has had some time to mature it has settled into itself and has been captured here looking stunning during […]

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Summer garden colour at Brown Earth HQ

The Brown Earth Garden has come on in leaps and bounds over the past few months so at the same time as announcing updates to my website with additions to my portfolio pages I thought I’d go all the way and upload some recent pictures from home as well. It’s amazing how quickly everything grows […]

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The Brown Earth Flower Garden

Firstly apologies, I haven’t put pen to paper for an embarrassingly long time but that’s because here at Brown Earth HQ there has been a new project in the offing. I have always been obsessed (among other things) by cut flowers; I love the uplifting effect they can have on any room or general mood.  […]

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Visit a Nursery for Garden Design Ideas

I love a visit to a plant nursery.  There’s something amazingly inspiring about seeing so many plants massed together and the sensory overload always leaves me yearning to go back, fill my arms with as many specimens as I can possibly carry, and spirit them home to my garden. At this time of year it […]

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Plants for Pollinators

If you want to invite wildlife into your garden it doesn’t automatically mean it has to become a wilderness.  There are so many elegant and sumptuous ‘must have’ plants which have the added bonus of enticing in the bees, butterflies and other important pollinators into your garden.  Below are some handy wildlife garden design tips… […]

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THE JOYS OF A FORMAL GARDEN

There’s nothing quite like walking into a garden of clipped yew, with structural planted hedges holding the garden in eternal balance; while the seasons come and go, these stately structures remain constant and unvarying. The thing I enjoy most is the contrast between these often massive evergreen monoliths and soft, floating planting that can froth […]

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