Bunbury Garden

This garden was completed in April 2009. It is my most sustainable garden so far. There is an english oak pergola, the paving is new Kerridge stone from Cheshire quarries and second hand flags, the gravel is eco-mix, made from recycled crushed brick, and the retaining walls are all built from red sandstone found on the site. All the trees and the majority of the shrubs were planted bare-rooted. There are Morello cherries, an apricot, apple trees underplanted with mint, blueberries, blackberries and rhubarb.

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Marcus Green's 'Time'. Easily the best Visionary garden. The oak planks move like waves under the oak saplings.

Tatton Show 09

The Lake District Bluebird Garden by Andrew Loudon and Janine Crimmins. I love the planed timber of the seats in contrast to the drystone walling.

Nature's Artistry - Autumn's Edge

My favourite show garden at Future Gardens is Fiona Heron's. Satisfying details, elegant structure, original, simple and delightful.

Future Gardens

Ivan Hicks's fantastic permanent garden at Butterfly World/Future Gardens in St Albans.

Hutton-in-the-Forest

The walled garden at the delightful Hutton-in-the-Forest. Really exuberant planting with strict topiary, apples pruned to form boundaries and limes trained on steel frames to form arbours.

Blair Castle, Perthshire

The walled garden at Blair Castle has been restored to its eighteenth century glory. Called the Hercules garden after the statue of the Farnese Hercules by John Cheere which still stands overlooking the garden where he was placed 250 years ago. The garden combines utility with beauty, having a series of pools running through the centre while the slopes are planted with fruit trees and there are mixed borders running round the walls.