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Ashleigh Brown
Features Writer, Pro Landscaper
Little Interviews Expanded – Jilayne Rickards
Launched at FutureScape 2023, the Pro Landscaper Sustainability & Biodiversity Awards highlight the future of landscaping. These awards are on a mission to showcase the most important innovation and initiatives across the UK landscaping sector, from design, to construction, to product supply and manufacturing. We look for great stories of...
Inspired to donate: The Stroke Association’s Garden for Recovery
Stroke survivor and garden designer Miria Harris has teamed up with the UK Stroke Association charity to bring the Stroke Association’s Garden for Recovery to life at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Having designed a peaceful, sensory space to support stroke recovery, “The Stroke Association’s Garden for Recovery aims to elevate the charity’s cause...
World Therapeutic Horticultural Day: What is it and why is it so important?
Almost15,000 people are supported by Trellis each month. The national charity for therapeutic horticulture supports around 520 groups across Scotland and parts of the UK, each with an average of 27 people taking part every week. It started in 2006 with just its CEO, Fiona Thackeray aided by a part time assistant, and a small group of volunteers...
Richard Claxton on the empowering benefits of gardening
As a GP, a keen gardener and a garden designer, Richard Claxton has long been aware of the benefits that come from gardening, and there’s arguably even more when done as part of a community. From helping people to overcome loneliness and isolation through to providing support and camaraderie, it presents an opportunity for those living with...
Little Interviews Expanded – Sue Payne
Launched at FutureScape 2023, the Pro Landscaper Sustainability & Biodiversity Awards highlight the future of landscaping. These awards are on a mission to showcase the most important innovation and initiatives across the UK landscaping sector, from design, to construction, to product supply and manufacturing. We look for great stories of...
Bringing Bridgerton to life: Netflix unveils themed garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024
From Shondaland, Netflix’s hit Bridgerton has become one of the most popular series on the platform. The first season alone has racked up 113.3 million views, making it the fourth most watched show on Netflix. It follows the powerful Bridgerton family as the late Viscount’s children make their debut onto Regency London's competitive marriage...
George Davies Turf supports local schools for Wildflower Week
Ahead of Wildflower Week 2024, which runs from 1 to 8 May, George Davies Turf has set out to deliver 20 rolls of wildflower turf to six schools across Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire. The donated turf aims to enhance picnic, play, and forest school areas whilst also increasing biodiversity by restoring native ecosystems and providing an...
Harry Holding launches new LDN Horticulture
Garden designer and Pro Landscaper's 30 Under 30: The Next Generation winner, Harry Holding has a new horticulture venture. LDN Horticulture is set to provide aftercare and garden maintenance services across London with its team of horticultural professionals. It aims to prioritise sustainability, working with ecologically sensitive practices...
30 Under 30 – A catch up with Georgia Gilbert
Georgia Gilbert is continually pushing herself to succeed. The 30 Under 30 winner was recently appointed as the wildflower technical manager at John Chambers Wildflower Seed, a brand supplied exclusively by Green-tech Ltd. Now with more responsibility within her role and the opportunity to be actively involved in industry events, Gilbert oversees...
Garden designer Hana Leonard on Planet vs Plastics
Horticulture is creating a “sea of plastic", says garden designer Hana Leonard - and it's not the only one. Greenpeace reckons nearly two billion pieces of plastic packaging are thrown away by UK households on a daily basis, after carrying out The Big Plastic Count in 2022. Seeking to put this waste to good use, Leonard – director of Secrets of...
9 top tips for balcony gardens according to Chelsea designers
Designed to showcase how size needn’t be an issue when it comes to creating a usable outdoor space, the Balcony and Container Gardens at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show aim to inspire urban dwellers who might have limited access to a garden. Within the confines of a 5m x 2m space, designers will use a variety of planting schemes and techniques to...
Discover the Stroke Association’s Garden for Recovery
When garden designer Miria Harris suffered a stroke in 2019, this was only the beginning of her battle for survival. Left with the inability to speak or form words, Harris was scared that she was losing her mind; but despite a relatively quick return to her normal state, it was the stroke that led to the discovery of the hole in her heart that...
Hiding beneath the mask, build an understanding of autism with Chelsea’s National Autistic Society Garden
Offering the industry an opportunity to break new ground as designers, landscapers, and architects – the RHS Chelsea Flower Show presents the enjoyment of the creative freedoms that are involved in making a show garden whilst also affording a chance to challenge the industry’s traditions and to push for innovation in sustainable design. And with...
Designing a show garden for relocation
Designed initially for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023, the Talitha Arts Garden is a celebration of the creative arts, uniting sculpture, performance, and plants and their therapeutic power to restore the lives of those who have suffered trauma. Designed “backwards”, Joe and Laura Carey of Carey Garden Design Studio, based their ideas and...