Howard Sooley

21.05.13


In conjunction with the exhbition of his work at the Garden Museum Dan was asked to invite other practitioners to create installations which shared common ground with his work. He asked photographer Howard Sooley to put up a show of photographs of his old garden in Peckham.

 

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New York Spring

18.04.13


If you have been lucky enough to have taken a stroll along the High Line in the last two weeks you will have seen the street traffic below filtered through the redbuds of Cercis canadensis.

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Guangzhou

17.02.13

Plant Nurseries of Guangzhou, China

A recent trip to the plant nurseries of Guangzhou, formerly Canton, the capital of China’s Guangdong province, revealed the scale of China’s landscape industry.

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Rosa Nguyen

01.01.13


In conjunction with the exhibition of Dan's work at the Garden Museum , ceramic artist, Rosa Nguyen, has created one of her trademark assemblages using natural materials and handmade ceramic elements. 

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Olives of Apulia

10.09.12


Valle d’Itria in Apulia near Bari is well-known for the trulli, Medieval agricultural buildings which punctuate the landscape with their conical roofs. However, the valley is also worth a visit for its stunning fields of monumental olive trees, especially along the coast between Ostuni and Monopoli.

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Italy, FV, Olives, Roman


On my recent visit to Japan I was given these two beautiful books - The Traditional Colours of Japan and The Traditional Japanese Colour Palette.

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DP, Japan, Colour, Books


I was asked out to the opening of The Garden Show at the beginning of June. I was one of five guest designers to create an exhibit at the garden show and there were seven competition entries. 

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DP, Millennium Forest, Hokkaido Garden Festival, Japan, Gardens

Tulip Trial 2012

16.04.12


This year we tried out a range of new tulips (as well as some old favourites) down on the farm.

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Tulips, Plant Trials