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A biennial visit to the Japanese Garden Cowden seems to be becoming a Shades of Green habit. I first toured the overgrown and neglected…

I make several trips to SW England teach year to visit family and I always make time to catch up with very a good…

Summer has carried on where spring left off – a constant juggling of projects – and with amazing weather! Wall to wall sunshine is…

A garden designer’s remit can be very varied, and the projects that have been occupying me this spring are no exception. This is just…

I arrived back to a very chilly Scotland on 6 April, following a very productive and enjoyable trustee visit to the school that our…

From 22 March to 5 April 2018 I will be taking off my Shades of Green Garden Design boots and donning my Uphill Trust...

It’s been an unusually snowy month in the Shades of Green patch – not so bad for design work in a nice warm office…

Since 2012 I have had the privilege of working in a rural garden in Glendevon. The garden has been developed in phases, with extensive…

A very Happy New Year to you all! As soon as we returned to work in January, both sets of landscape contractors that I…

As we come to the end of another busy year I can look back with pleasure on the new client relationships built during 2017….