Planting the Oudolf Garden at Hauser & Wirth Somerset

The Swiss couple, Iwan and Manuela Wirth built the Hauser & Wirth Art Gallery on what was an abandoned farm on the outskirts of Bruton in Somerset and commissioned Piet Oudolf to design the gardens around it. From the beginning they made it clear that they didn’t want a garden to simply accompany the gallery …

Trentham

Trentham Estate, in Stoke-on-Trent, has experienced great changes throughout its history; change will inevitably continue; and its most recent changes have seen one of the largest garden developments in Britain. The estate dates to 1086; there was an Augustinian Priory on the site, followed by a convent and Trentham Priory. The estate was sold in …

Gardens of the High Line

For many years I walked and enjoyed the wildness of a deserted railway line close to my home. The interaction between the industrial hard landscape and the gradual but persistent encroachment of nature is always fascinating and it was such a scene in New York which inspired the development of the High Line, one of …