Philosophy

We all know that the beauty of nature has a very positive effect on our state of wellbeing. Some of our most memorable experiences have been when the natural world has stopped us short in our tracks - in the presence of a fabulous sunset, a stunning flower, the appearance of an unexpected view...the mesmerising sound of the ocean.

We want to bring a little more of this magic into your daily lives and to give you a real experience of time out from the rush and bustle. Submerging oneself in the beauty of a garden can help us to unwind, to restore our rattled nerves, and to relax a little more. It is our mission to provide special places for this important experience. Your garden is designed to be a place of inspiration and relaxation, a special space to give you an all year round experience of beauty, colour and quietude.

'My spirit was lifted and my soul nourished by my time in the garden.

It gave me a calm connection with all of life, and an awareness that remains

with me now, long after leaving the garden'.

- Nancy Ross

"We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. . . spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order".

Susan L. Taylor

"There are sacred moments in life when we experience in rational and very direct ways that separation, the boundary between ourselves and other people and between ourselves and Nature, is illusion. Oneness is reality."

  Charlene Spretnak

'Bad gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend.

What all great gardens have in common are their ability to pull the

sensitive viewer out of him or herself and into the garden, so

completely that the separate self-sense disappears entirely, and at

least for a brief moment one is ushered into a nondual and timeless

awareness. A great garden, in other words, is mystical

no matter what its actual content'.

- Ken Wilbur, Grace and Grit, 1991

'There is not a single colour hidden away in the chalice of a flower,

or the curve of a shell, to which some subtle sympathy with the

very soul of things, my nature does not answer'.

- Oscar Wilde

'What is hidden from you will be disclosed to you.

For there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed.

Split a piece of wood; I am there.

Lift up the stone, and you will find me there'.

  The Gospel of St. Thomas

'Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself

and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events

are blessings given to us to learn from'.

- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

'When Lawrence first found a gentian, a big single blue one, I remember feeling

as if he had a strange communion with it, as if the gentian yielded up its blueness,

its very essence, to him. Everything he met had the newness of a creation

just that moment come into being'.

- Freda Lawrence writing about her 1912 honeymoon with D. H. Lawrence

Having a positive intimate experience with nature is a great benefit to us all and particuarly for children. We always welcome the opportunity to create family gardens where the experience of the child is a central design consideration.

OUR GREEN POLICY

We treasure the earth's resources and make every effort to source and use materials in a responsible manner. We try to ensure minimum wastage and reuse materials where possible, recylable materials are taken for recycling and we very often use recycled materials for construction. Our gardens are designed and built to be permanent - these are not 'disposable' gardens that follow this years fad or fashion to be redone with the next owner. We aim to achieve the ideal solution for your outdoor space, a garden that will mature beautifully for many generations