As I mentioned in the last post, we’ve been working in Ashbourne installing a garden we’ve designed. If you’ve never been, I can recommend it, as it’s a lovely market town in the Derbyshire Dales. On a whim, we once bought a kitchen table from the market place, and drove it home to London, strapped to the roof of the car. But apart from its stock of rustic kitchen furniture, Ashbourne is most famous for its Royal...

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” said the philosopher Henry David Thoreau. Let’s hope he was right, because we’ve been very busy indeed. So busy, in fact, that our latest completed garden hasn’t even been photographed yet, let alone added to the gallery pages. We will try to fix this ASAP, because it really does look great, even if we do say so ourselves. So what have we been up to?...