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Scouting around central London for new gardens to take students to visit next year. Thanks to Alex for walking me around the charming gardens at @thecharterhousegardens (sorry to miss @katysmuddyboots), and to Helen at Mecklenburgh Square for the lovely tour of this 19th century oasis. Lights coming on at Kew. Autumn colours in Queen Mary’s Gardens From the grasslands of South Africa to American prairies, and from Edwardian gardens to the micro-forest of the future and climate-change planting. Fantastic morning being walked around the Horniman museum’s gardens by @errolreubenfernandes. Thank you for sharing your passion and for giving us so much of your time. In between showers in the Mediterranean border this morning. Bees and pollinators enjoying late-summer flowering plants - many of which are actually not from the Mediterranean, such as Ceratostigma and Caryopteris, but enjoy similar conditions and help provide a diverse habitat without outcompeting native flora. First roughs for a new project: couple with very young children, al fresco dining near house, lawn to mooch about, chill-out area at the back with potential to turn into children play area, and some enclosing planting. Starting with asymmetrical design at 90, 45, and 30 degrees. Informal could work well too… It’s been a tough summer down in the Western Loire valley, with no rain to speak of for most of the summer and temperatures hitting 40C several times. Lots of frazzled foliage but the usual suspects performed brilliantly in the chalky clay soil (rosemary, lavender, cistus, stipa etc.). Others unexpectedly struggled though - the Salvia in particular have suffered, especially those in their first year, and the Santolinas. But by the time we left yesterday, most of them were showing fresh growth. In fact, Salvia Caradonna, left in the ground for dead last year, was coming back among replacement Asters. Here is a slightly random selection of the winning survivors who braved hours of direct sun, heat, and lack of water: Stipa tenuissima and gigantea, Euphorbia (all), Nepeta, Aster x frikartii Mönch (remarkably), Hylotelephium Matrona, Potentilla fruticosa, Lagerstroemia, Cistus, Sesleria (autumnalis and nitida), Phlomis (especially purpurea and italica), Agastache rugosa (shallow rooted but managing very well), and Stachys byzantina. Special mention for Geranium Rozanne (usually too thuggish) and Vitex. How to draw an elevation in under 30 seconds - a time-lapse video to take my students through the process of drawing a simple elevation, from projecting elements on the plan, through the front layers and to the back of the garden, using hierarchy of lines and exercising judgement as to what to include or not, to ensure the final drawing is sufficiently evocative without being overly busy. It helps to include items such as furniture, which gives an instant sense of scale. How to draw an elevation in under 30 seconds The next time you have had a tooth extracted by the very professional dental team at Guy’s and St Thomas’ and you need a bit of a mood lift after the procedure, turn left into Snowfields Street and walk on until you happen across the Greenwood Theatre, Bermondsey. Built in the 1970s as a lecture theatre, the austere, concrete block was transformed into a lively, Barragan-coloured cube in 2015, and necklaced by a string of mini pocket parks by @joe_swifty. A total delight in a very urban part of London - especially as the anaesthetics begin to wear off.

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