Regarding advertising in Parish magazines - many years ago when I first started my design business, I managed to negotiate free advertising in a local Parish Magazine in return for writing a short 'What to do in your garden this month&...
Thanks for your comment Stephen and it is easy to understand your love of foliage when looking at the photos of your garden.
I am a foliage person at heart too. I started with evergreen only, then I added others like hostas, sambucus and cotinus. Now I am getting older I think my plant palette is changing again and I have started planting more perennials like verbena bonariensis, geum, crocosmia lucifer and the biennial lychnis coronaria. These help me to create a more seasonal garden as against looking the same all year round.
Hey Stephen,
I'm from the Portsmouth area. Next year I'm going to South Downs to do a catering management course (although I want to join the Police Force... The social skills are valuable, though).
I got intrested in gardening becuase of my grandad, and through the years I've helped him maintain his garden, until recently, when me moved into a care home.
I only stumbled upon this site when I was looking for a programme of some sort to help my mum design our new house's garden - there are some tight spaces, and it's a strangly shaped garden, with an area of around 8ft by 18 ft by the side of the house, which gets little light because of a large hedge (which is hopefully being removed at some point). I'm hoping that with the aid of a computer and some experienced people, it will help iron out any measurement mistakes, and to get a better look of how we want it to look like.
Sorry for going a bit off-track there ^_^
I don't want to get into gardening heavily - I just want to keep the skills that m grandad taught me, and maintain the wonderful gardens like he did. However, if I were to go into gardening as a job, I quite like rockeries and water features... They always add a nice touch to a garden, if in the right place... And I like the tranquility of the water - rather relaxing. :)
Sorry I've babbeled on a bit ^_^,
-> Jamie.
Hi Stephen. Thanks for the kind words. I have my ex lecturer to thank for me pushing my use of CAD. She has seen a lot of CAD work from various people and for reasons that, once she explained why, I fully understand. Thankfully she gave me the opportunity to experiment and I felt that I had to prove her wrong in some of her views, in particular the presentation of CAD and how it all seems to look the same. In my former life, there was no such thing as "the computer can't do that" and I think that my efforts have gone some way to making her change her mind. Now I'm out of the restraints of the college style, I can experiment even further.
Hi Stephen - I trained at Lackham College in Wiltshire with Trevor Armes - managed a distinction for the HNC Garden Design & Planning Course. Now run a garden design co near Bath and am keeping busy! Thanks for the welcome.
Regards Tim
I wonder if you know Linda Phillips, she trained at Kew and was an apprentice at Hampton Court? She runs Roots and Shoots in Lambeth and has done since she set it up in 1982. She is a one off. www.rootsandshoots.org.uk
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