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Designer Diary: January 2012
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Melissa Jolly Garden and Landscape design. Melissa Jolly Garden Design. Click to go to my website. Thursday, 26 January 2012. I have just read the witty blog of my author sister http:/ www.threegirlsandapen.blogspot.com/. About anagrams - a little piece on the anagrams of. A garden designer ‘. Adds green reign’. To a landscape, although they must be wary of. 8216; regarding needs’. Of the client – and be careful the job does not entail an ‘. Else the client may be heard to cry ‘. Links to this post.
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Designer Diary: February 2012
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Melissa Jolly Garden and Landscape design. Melissa Jolly Garden Design. Click to go to my website. Monday, 27 February 2012. A greenroof for our bike shed. It's amazing how many jobs there seem to be in the garden as soon as we get a bit of sunshine - jobs and neighbourly encounters over the garden fence! At Hampton Court and strong enough to hold the weight of a green roof. Picturesque' @ Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2011 (Gold). Re-used flooring from 'Picturesque' used to clad new bike shed! I've u...
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Designer Diary: April 2011
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Melissa Jolly Garden and Landscape design. Melissa Jolly Garden Design. Click to go to my website. Friday, 22 April 2011. Has kindly said he'll keep an eye on it all and water everything. The 5 hour journey down here gave me time to think of the conceptual garden that I'm building at Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. This year. As with a lot of things I do in life, I feel I have left my planning a little late. I was up at 6.45am on the first morning of my 'holiday' working on the show garden. The house i...
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Designer Diary: Garden Bones
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Melissa Jolly Garden and Landscape design. Melissa Jolly Garden Design. Click to go to my website. Tuesday, 6 December 2011. My take on garden design is all about getting the structure and bones of the garden right before even thinking about the plants. However, the last bed I have just planted is all about using the plants, themselves, in a sculptural, structural way. I love the thought of tightly clipped forms (in this case Buxus. And Hebe ' Sutherlandii. I chose these plants after I visited. I am a Ga...
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Designer Diary: May 2010
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Melissa Jolly Garden and Landscape design. Melissa Jolly Garden Design. Click to go to my website. Thursday, 27 May 2010. Filming for Gardener's World. The BBC team from Gardener's World. Got in touch with me a couple of weeks ago saying they were interested in covering the background and build up of my show garden. I'm fortunate to live close by to my tutor Duncan Heather. Who is the director at the Oxford College of Garden Design. Links to this post. Oxford College of Garden Design. Sunday, 16 May 2010.
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Designer Diary: July 2011
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Melissa Jolly Garden and Landscape design. Melissa Jolly Garden Design. Click to go to my website. Friday, 15 July 2011. Gold Medal At Hampton Court. I was over the moon to be awarded a gold medal for my Conceptual garden at Hampton Court Palace Flower show. I want to say a huge thank you to my main contributors - the RHS. Without whom this garden would not have been realised to it's full potential. I've had some really great comments and articles about the garden - especially in The Independent. Going t...
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Designer Diary: November 2011
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Melissa Jolly Garden and Landscape design. Melissa Jolly Garden Design. Click to go to my website. Sunday, 13 November 2011. What Are Gardens For? I was at the Society of Garden Designer's. Autumn conference yesterday - having seen that Dan Pearson was talking on the subject of "What Are Gardens For? I decided I couldn't miss this conference. What I hadn't been prepared for was the quality of the other 3 speakers - all superb and very different to each other. The chair for the day was Lucy Huntington.
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Designer Diary: Hampton Court Contributors and Suppliers
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Melissa Jolly Garden and Landscape design. Melissa Jolly Garden Design. Click to go to my website. Hampton Court Contributors and Suppliers. Benchmarx Kitchens and joinery. Specialist herbaceous plant nursery to the trade. Restio specialist and supplier of his own personal banana plant! Supplier of sheet metal. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). There was an error in this gadget. Hampton Court Contributors and Suppliers. View my complete profile. Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. 2011 - 5th-10th July.
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Designer Diary: Good tutors
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Melissa Jolly Garden and Landscape design. Melissa Jolly Garden Design. Click to go to my website. Wednesday, 22 February 2012. I came into the garden design industry with a passion for houses, design and nature but very little knowledge of horticulture. I have always gardened - but it's not until I started learning about plants that I realised how little I knew. Our college planting tutor was Chris Marchant from Orchard Dene Nurseries. By one of the UK's leading gardening experts, Andy McIndoe. Hampton ...
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