Hello! Mind the paint on your way in because, as you might have noticed, we’ve had the decorators in. Gone is the Battleship Grey decor of the previous site, replaced with the classy tones of Antique Ivoire Blanc (or white, to you and me). In other words, we have a new website. I should draw your attention to the smiling features of Your’s Truly on the homepage, which my husband has dubbed ‘the unacceptable face of garden...

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My eagle-eyed reader will tell you that I occasionally contribute a breezy couple of paragraph to a local village magazine. My initial idea of appearing under the billing “Anna Barker, North-West Leicestershire’s Premier Garden Designer” was met with something less than enthusiasm from the Editor, but I persevered and now my cheery gardening wisdom graces the doormats, coffee tables and dentists’ waiting rooms of Ashby,...

I can’t believe the holidays are here again. Just this morning we finished typing some client emails so, bar one or two deliveries, we’re on vacation now until the New Year. We’ve had an extremely busy twelve months. The year started off with my recovery from a broken foot, and predictions of global financial doom from practically everyone. But we persevered, and we’ve met some lovely clients for the first time whilst...

Hopefully you’ll have seen our link to the large garden we designed and built in Moira, Leicestershire last year. We went back this year with our little hand-held camera to take some reference video shots, and I thought you might like to see one. The winter of 2010/11 was the worst for a generation, but it didn’t seem to have affected the new planting too much. We lost some Phormiums, Fatsias and Penstemons, but happily the rest...