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May 23, 2020
This is the exact spot where I stood as a student in 1997 when I arrived to help the wonderful Lady Xa Tollemache of Helmingham Hall Gardens on her RHS Chelsea garden for The Evening Standard way back in 1997. I was signed up to stay for a day as an extra pair of hands during planting, and ended up staying for the whole […]
May 13, 2020
Try as I might, I cannot get the RHS Chelsea Flower Show out of my head and I am so grateful to this show for the wealth of memories. The Chelsea Flower Show is many things to many people, but for many designers, it’s a place where you can flex your creativity, and if you’ve got a client brave enough, it’s a place to experiment, […]
May 3, 2020
This Sunday my mind returns to a life-changing moment back in 2010, when my dear friend Jane Owen telephoned to ask if I’d consider doing a show garden at RHS Chelsea with her. She’d recently stayed with a community of Baka hunter-gatherers for a few days in a remote part of southern Cameroon a few miles from UNESCO’s 526, 000 hectare World Heritage Dja reserve. […]
November 27, 2019
At AMPG we are passionate about how the role our gardens can play in helping to fight against climate change, but we know it is often difficult to know where to start. This month we have been inspired and enthused by the Woodland Trust’s Big Climate Fightback. We would like to ask you to start by planting a tree. A small individual step, but collectively […]
September 23, 2019
It’s a busy and important time of the year for garden forward planning with the added pressure that many of these tasks are time-sensitive too; at AMPG, there’s no doubt that we entering prime planting season. But whilst you’re considering plugging border gaps with herbaceous, trees or shrubs, don’t forget about that group of plants which are indispensable in extending your garden’s interest early in […]
September 11, 2019
As practice principal, I’m delighted to introduce our newest team member, Ian Jakeway, who brings a host of experience and talent to Ann-Marie Powell Gardens. Here, in his own words, he describes what makes him tick. Ian, welcome to AMPG. “I have always loved being outside and look back at fond memories of landscape experienced as a child, with country walks exploring with my dad […]
March 5, 2019
Finally, the days are getting brighter and ever so slightly longer, and as adventurous stems begin to unfurl from long slumbering soil, the optimism of the new garden season reaches from the border into our studio. March is the time that farmers to begin planting spring crops and us gardeners to prise open sheds and reach once again for trowel and spade. After the […]
February 14, 2019
Having just returned to the studio after maternity leave, whilst at home with my new baby, I heard the phrase: ‘Remember to look after yourself and take time off as a couple once you have had the baby’ countless times. ”Yes yes, of course, I will”, I *might* have dared to think, assuming I’d master the working/family/life balance in a breeze. If you’re in a […]