There is certainly great art in creating a garden that respects a home’s heritage architecture, whilst simultaneously providing contemporary style and energy. Ian Barker’s team have painstakingly achieved this in [...]
‘A great house is always a strong marriage of architecture, landscape and interiors’, says Rob Mills, Director of award-winning Melbourne based practice Rob Mills Architecture & Interiors (RMA). RMA design [...]
Any plant with japonica (or japonicus) in its name means it comes from Japan, as does this splendid shrub. And where a plant is from can tell you a lot [...]
If you’re going to have salt, you might as well make it as healthy and as flavorsome as you can. (Remember the old saying of course: ‘Everything in moderation, except [...]
We love our light-filled outdoor spaces but balancing light with excessive sun can be a tricky landscape design challenge. Ian Barker explains that establishing where the sun is positioned at [...]
There has been a pendulum swing between curves and straight lines since landscape design came into being. Gardens with mostly straight lines are more formal in appearance than those with [...]
Anyone who has been following our garden design work over the years, will know how much we love our perennials. Our passion in creating gardens with naturalistic planting schemes would [...]
In a very picturesque part of England, just an hour’s drive north-west of central London on a major tourist route, is The Jellicoe Water Gardens, a must visit parklands when [...]
The ornamental Salvias or Sages (yes, all relatives of culinary Sage) are an exceptional group of garden plants that just keep on giving – masses of flowers that is. Ian [...]
There’s nothing like a few challenges and this garden design project on the Mornington Peninsula certainly provided them. The site is particularly steep and the spectacular new home by Architects [...]