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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 & […]

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 […]

We are delighted to have been featured in prestigious Wallpaper* Magazine for our new garden at Cottonmill Spa and Club at Sopwell House. As the ubiquity of private members’ clubs grow, Sopwell House, the grand Hertfordshire-based hotel, has taken the quest for exclusivity quite seriously with the relaunch of its wellness facilities into a sprawling private members’ spa comprising Cottonmill and the even more exclusive […]

The new spa at Sopwell House Hotel is opening its doors, following a £14m investment project. Cottonmill is a new three-storey, private members spa, which offers two tiers of memberships to both hotel guests and non-residents. Sparcstudio, a privately-owned, creative, design studio that has established an enviable reputation for producing highly successful, creative and award winning Spas, Wellness/Fitness, Hotel and Resort facilities have designed the […]