Screening, Screening, Screening! With land at a premium and new houses often being built on top of each other the need for gardens to provide a level of screening is regularly towards the top of a design wish list….. We’re approaching 18 month at Little Acre and the majority of our efforts and time have […]
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Woods….bathing, breathing & simply being.
Well the hammock isn’t quite strung between palm trees & the cup of tea I’ve got isn’t quite the gin cocktail I’d like……but the view of this mighty oak (which has easily got a good couple of hundred years under its belt) certainly helps you to relax, just breathe and let your brain destress for […]
Every day’s a school day…..
As previously mentioned, time spent working on the garden at Little Acre has been somewhat lacking of late, partly on account of a whole lot of procrastinating but mainly due to gaining a bucket load of hands on experience working on Matt Childs Hampton Court show garden (see previous blogs part one & part two). […]
Sweat, Mud & Show Gardens Part 2…
As a follow on from part one……I had one more day left on site with Matt and the team. I was already feeling pangs of disappointment for being assigned elsewhere for the remainder of the week and would not see this garden through to completion. Day 2 was hard hard work, moving mountains of compost, […]
Sweat, Mud & Show Gardens Part 1….
Things have been somewhat quiet on the Little Acre Garden front of late. Partly on account of getting lost in the day to days. Partly due to a necessary refocus on bringing the house decor into the current era (in an effort to reduce the woodchip and anaglypta). Partly in order to spend time getting […]