New tree planting in Hampshire, to soften boundaries, enhance views and provide replacements for established trees when they eventually fall

An extraordinary and unique bower made by Martha Freud, Danny Wootton and Sid Dawes from stag-head oak. We can't decide whether it is too beautiful to adorn with climbing plants ....

Here is a new garden for a new-build house planted Winter/Spring 2010/11. The advantage of planting hedges relatively small is that you can let them grow slowly to a height that suits the site - not too high and not too low - eye heights vary - not all my clients are 6'4'' like me.

Here is a photo, take in August, of a little orchard of crabapple and hawthorn trees, planted last Winter and now, because of the extraordinary Spring we had this year, struggling with an unusually heavy crop of fruit. The house has been extensively restored and the garden, which was a wilderness a few years ago, entirely recreated and re-imagined.

My own garden May 2011 (cf. photo below) with Geum Princess Juliana, Geranium macrorrhizum Bevans Variety added for extra colour to contrast with the monkshoods, Phlomis, self-seeded ferns and verbascums

Spring at last in a new London garden. Clematis macropetala in a white glazed Brooke Barrel - (pity about the rogue tulip)

This is my own garden in mid-May, a stunning combination of Euphorbia 'Fireglow' and Monkshood, both semi-wild, both thriving in a raised, dryish border

A prototype modern garden seat for swinging lovers: a wrought iron design combining two hearts. It was difficult to make and, having only three legs, it took some tinkering to make it stable. However, it is surprisingly comfortable and, painted cherry red, adds a bit of zing to a country garden; seen here amidst forget-me-nots

A sketch design for a little play house on stilts based on a small, traditional granary or apple store - a timber-clad, oak-frame with clay tile roof staddle stones and a detachable ladder - perfect for children of all ages!

This is a concept sketch for a 'firewall' - a wall with a fire