Liliy's planted at the entrance of the hotel  wedding garden.

Trimming box hedges with box topiaries.  

Wisteria pruning. Some people like to have the Wisteria pruned hard back flush with the wall with very little branch structure. I prefer to have a more natural style, but it is not as easy to prune it this way, and it has to be well secured.     

More Wisteria pruning

Rose pruning and all those things that help to make your garden roses bloom away throughout the season.

Dividing a very large garden with a chestnut rustic fence to create two separate sections and make the garden feel more homely.

Designed and planted and maintained

The old hard tennis court had been removed and the soil levelled and compacted by heavy machinery, so compost was chopped into the top two inches, this gave the turf a good start and over the following years the soil improved because I used mulching lawnmowers.     

Creating an area to sit on a sloping garden and planting a selection of perenials and shrubs.

The warm misty morning was one of the first nice days of the year.

A swirling design on a steep bank for a yachting couple. With it planted up

below.

This is the project above after planting viewed from the bottom upwards

I enjoy building natural stone walls, but it is not something that I have done a great deal of over the years, and this selection of work was all done during the same year while maintaining all the other gardens. This curved end section was quite awkward as it had no motar holding it is place.  

Natural stone walling. 

Building these retaining walls with natural stones from the Totnes area was a joy and a pain. Getting the stones down into the garden required quite a bit of mountaineering skills. .    

I built this sitting area under a large box shrub with stones that had been uised for other things in the garden. It was a nice cool shady area and the very large flat top stones creating a secluded seating area.        

Rebuilding a natural stone retaining wall

Special seed impregnated matting to hold back the bank and the new top soil as it was too steep for turf. The new soil had to be patted into place as the matting was slowly rolled down the bank and then pinned in place.

The new grass mixed with clover is starting to grow through the matting, this will eventually rot away after two years.

This shows the other work with the matting. Not something that we had done before or since, but it had to be completed quickly before the summer holiday season started at the hotel.