Let's break this cycle: the UK is brainwashed about lawns. If you use your lawn that's great, a beautiful lawn has a purpose and nothing beats sitting on neatly mown grass filled with daisies and other flowers. But if you aren't using it, why do you even have it? A lawn by the rules of| Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens | nature, landscape and garden design in H...
Yesterday I went to RHS Wisley for the flower show, in particular the National Dahlia Society's annual show and I hadn't prepared myself for the garden itself, stupid fool that I am. But that added to a magical experience, it was like discovering Kew all over again, a secret garden of Eden, its existence I knew| Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens | nature, landscape and garden design in H...
I didn't think there would be anything more nerve-wracking than having Monty Don coming around to see our garden expecting it to look finished. But then, I hadn't reckoned on opening our garden on the National Open Garden Scheme (NGS). When the film crew were in it was all too easy to ask them to kindly| Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens | nature, landscape and garden design in H...
I never design gardens with fake grass for aesthetic, experiential and environmental reasons. That said, some of my clients do still choose to install it, as do some of my friends and family, which makes this blog post a tad awkward to write. I don't mean to make people feel bad for choosing astro turf| Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens | nature, landscape and garden design in H...
I will no longer be drawn into the false narrative on peat free vs peat compost comparisons. Over the last ten years I've been using peat free compost in increasingly large quantities each year to grow every type of vegetable and the majority of ornamental plants available to gardeners, including a number of acid loving| Jack Wallington | Nature & Gardens | nature, landscape and garden design in H...
