July 29, 2020
Always a thrill to open one of our practice’s favourite industry magazines ProLandscaper and discover our work featured in it. Of the two gardens the Ann-Marie Powell Gardens Studio has designed to encircle the UK’s first-ever dedicated scientific centre of excellence at the Royal Horticultural Society’s flagship garden RHS Wisley, the wildlife garden is well underway under the capable eye of specialist Landscape Contractors Landform Consultants. […]
July 20, 2020
Always such a pleasure to visit old friends who you admire and respect at home in their own gardens, but what to say when they ask your honest opinion of their garden?! When I visited my old friend Stephen Lacey at home in his own garden in Wales, I really didn’t expect my critique to appear in his regular The Telegraph column! Reading his piece […]
June 3, 2020
Ann-Marie Powell is delighted to have been featured in The Financial Times House and Home in an article written by Journalist Jane Perrone regarding the future of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. She reports “Every designer I have spoken to has been devastated by the cancellation of the show, but there has been a silver lining: like many of us, they are rediscovering their own […]
May 24, 2020
Very pleased to contribute to today’s The Telegraph musing about how the RHS Chelsea Flower Show might look next year in 2021. “What does the future of RHS Chelsea Flower Show look like? We asked the experts… by Tim Richardson. Is the ‘fallow year’ of Virtual Chelsea a chance for a creative reset? Britain’s top gardeners have plenty of ideas. Yesterday should have been the […]
May 16, 2020
Ann-Marie Powell is delighted to be included in The Daily Mail‘s RHS Chelsea Flower Show Special on Saturday 16th May 2020. “How we created our show stoppers…at home They’ve all won RHS gold medals. Now they reveal how. Dazzling display to cheer up passer-by. Ann-Marie Powell, 48, lives in Petersfield, Hampshire, with her partner Jules, 52, and their two sons. She says: ‘When we had […]
May 16, 2020
Very pleased to contribute to today’s article in The Guardian from Harriet Sherwood on garden makeovers during lockdown. And here’s the kitchen garden: cooped-up Britain moves the indoors outdoors by Harriet Sherwood. As lockdown forces us to use every inch inside our homes, those lucky enough to have outside space are going al-fresco “Outdoor living rooms are not a new idea, but it’s definitely a […]
April 18, 2020
So delighted to be featured in The Telegraph‘s Clare Coulson on online feeds offering the very best gardening advice online for my personal lockdown project @myrealgarden on Instagram. “The best online tutorials, tours and courses to become a better gardener in lockdown by Clare Coulson Need expert advice, want to learn new skills or go on a virtual visit? Enter a burgeoning online world that’s […]
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 […]
November 1, 2019
The Octagon Garden Club and Friends of St Mary’s Church, Stoughton invite you to a talk entitled A PASSION FOR PLANTS: Favourite colour schemes and selections from Ann-Marie’s notebook. This will be held on Wednesday, 6th November 2019 at 6.00 pm for 6.30 pm at the School Hall, Compton. Entrance £10 on the door to include a glass of wine and canapés. Address: Compton & […]
October 11, 2019
Ann-Marie is honoured, proud, (and slightly self-conscious!) about being nominated as a Woman of the Year at the annual Women of the Year Lunch and Awards sponsored by Barclays. The annual event (this year being held on Monday 14th October 2019 at the Royal Lancaster London), is the longest running celebration of extraordinary women in the UK. Each year a nominating council elects just 450 […]