As the days draw in and we enjoy misty mornings & golden light, it’s time for enjoying & preserving fruit & seed & nourishing the soil. It is also the perfect time of year to plant your new garden, bare root season has arrived,
Dry garden planting in the RSPB Contemplation garden doing well in the heat & drought conditions this year. A garden planted into the sandy loam of the area, we knew the plants we chose needed to be drought resistant as well as wildlife friendly.
Taking time to celebrate the Poppy. Incredibly resilient. Beautiful, ephemeral. Often visited by bees. #Cambridgegardendesign #catrionacaldwellstudio #wildlifegarden #plantingforbiodiversity
A feast for the senses, a walled wildlife garden @ The Lodge, RSPB headquarters in Sandy. The photos don’t really do justice to the feeling of being inside the garden. The scent of the climbing roses & the gentle buzz as the air moves with
Great for wildlife & gorgeous. Malus Evereste, crab apple tree, marking the stepped entrance to the upper, wilder, garden in one of our Cambridgeshire projects. Providing pollinator friendly blossom in spring helping bees, insects, butterflies &a
Gorgeous spring light & handcrafted stone wall in Cambridge. I worked closely with local natural stone specialists Fairhaven Stone to choose the stone paving & design & make the stone wall in this garden. Getting the details right makes
On site - testing position & scale with spades & measuring tape before a trip to the nursery to source specimen trees & shrubs. The stone terraces & walls are mid build & we can see the character of each area of the garden start
Carefully considered details create long lasting gardens. #cambridgegardendesign #urbangarden #vandemoortel #lazenby #archiplants #provendernurseries #tkelandscaping #artisteelltd #catrionacaldwellstudio
One of my favourites. Rosa x odorata 'Mutabilis'. I can often be found looking for a place for one of these in your garden. This one is nestled close to the house in one of our Cambridgshire projects & surrounded by Salvia to help protect it fro
Euphorbias & Iris enjoying the hot spring weather we are having in this Cambridge dry garden we made last year. This garden was a rectangular lawn with borders around the edges when I was first brought on to the project. The lawn was prone to dry
@RSPB The Lodge. Elegant stone & brick walls enclose a new Contemplation Garden for visitors & staff. We were commissioned to create the Concept Design & Masterplan, and develop & plant the detailed mix of perennials & grasses al
Shortlisted in the 2024 Clay Paver Awards @brickworksvandemoortel in the City Gardens Category. A privilege to be amongst such great company at a wonderful event earlier this year, meeting lots of new people in the industry and with an inspiring tri
Honoured to be invited to talk to Chesterton Gardening Club tomorrow evening about Designing Sustainable Gardens. Alongside an inspiring line up of speakers this year. Sustainability is an important conversation that runs through our project design
A view of the deep borders we planted last year in one of our Cambridgeshire projects. Planting softens a level change that wraps around the rear of the house, creating a home immersed in colour & texture. #gardendesign #plantingdesign #countr
Something for winter in the garden. Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Jelena’ flowers glowing, backlit by the winter sun. ‘Jelena’ is one of the earliest flowering witch hazel. This photo was taken over Christmas. #wintergarden
To lawn or not to lawn? . Lawns can be a passionate subject. . This client came to me 'tired of looking at his brown lawn for half the year'. Alongside a cherished memory of heritage urns in a garden from his past. . This is a concept sketch of the d
From the drawing board... a concept sketch for a garden in Norwich currently on site, ready for planting this spring. The design softens the level change between the house and main garden level, bringing planting right up to the house. Creating a j
Autumn is an opportunity to create some drama. Using the season’s low light to make your garden glow. It starts with time getting to know how the sun moves around the space, and then choosing which plants you want to see light up! I enjoy ad