Well known garden designer, Ann Marie Powell is looking forward to a busy year ahead. She is refreshingly upbeat as she explains, “we are still really busy designing private gardens and have a couple of […]
Opera singer Wynne Evans comes straight to the point and admits. “I love being in the garden but preferably with a large gin and tonic. I’m rubbish at gardening. My wife, Tanwen, looks after all […]
One of Tom Hugh Jones earliest memories is running around a Jungle, naked with his pet marmoset. The producer and director of BBC’s hit series Human Planet explains, “My Mother and Father were anthropologists and […]
BBC rugby commentator, Eddie Butler created his garden from scratch, on a site that used to be a poultry farm. He explained, “We had to change a lot and do a lot of digging out. […]
Olympic Swimming Gold Medallist , Duncan Goodhew (MBE) surprised me a little by explaining his earliest memory of swimming involves his father and a JCB. “My father dug up the tennis court in our garden […]
Jane Davidson’s puts her passion for the environment down to spending the vast majority of her life outdoors. The Minister for the Environment, Sustainability and Housing explained, “I was brought up in Africa and as […]
Property expert and presenter of BBC’s ‘Homes Under The Hammer’, Martin Roberts tells me a neat and tidy garden makes a massive difference when selling a house. “These are very uncertain times and if you […]
As the deputy editor of Horticulture Week and editor of Garden Retail, Matthew Appleby has his green finger on the pulse of Horticultural trends. “I think growing your own veg has peaked,” he shares. “It’s […]
Julian Beever is an English pavement artist renowned for creating trompe-l’oeil chalk drawings using a projection technique called anamorphosis; this creates the illusion of three dimensions when viewed from the correct angle. (The photo on […]
As Welsh winger, Leigh Halfpenny (pictured with me supporting Marie Curie Cancer Care has missed out on playing the autumn Rugby Internationals due to ankle ligament damage I wondered if he had been spending his […]
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