If only Edward Scissorhands was real and employable... (we'd have him) . -  That time has finally come around again when everyone's gardens can get clipped and shaped. 

Although it requires a lot of zipping around and effort we really love this time of year because it's when the gardens that we create start to get streamlined.

All this week we have pruned and trimmed and clipped and tended and cared...

For the new gardens it marks the stage that they make the transition in to their intended state and for the established ones they simply get smartened up.

The Contemporary Cotswold Garden - new level and new photos coming to our web portfolio this weekend.

New. Family garden -  coming to our web portfolio very soon.

New. Family garden -  coming to our web portfolio this weekend.

We are just relieved that we didn't have to deal with this -

or this

Levens Hall, Cumbria. (It's the oldest topiary garden in the world - designs dating back to the 1690's)

or this...

or these

or that

Longwood Gardens Philadelphia

or we would start resembling this...

Instead we have dealt with things like this

and this

New. Family garden -  coming to our web portfolio this weekend.

 

 

We have a few more weeks of Tulips but then their time draws to an end. It was unfortunate that we had the freak storms last weekend...

Some of those poor Tulips got their heads bashed in

and others lost their heads altogether...

But we'll be keeping ours

 

Letters and other memorabilia displayed at the Courtauld exhibition Mondrian || Nicholson: In Parallel reveal that Mondrian was a less forbidding character than his white spaces, precise grids and strict use of primary colours might suggest. As a tribute to the great master of modernism we have collated visuals from around the globe to illustrate how Mondrian’s avant-garde influences still have relevance and vision in the contexts of our gardens, architecture and landscapes today.

Hundehaus cubix

The Hudson by Phillippe Starck

Colour blocking also equals the absence of colour

Marisposa chair

31 Table

Miami Mondrian Hotel

Mini Desk Garden Haute Culture

Eu/phoria garden chairs by Paola Navione

the Stitch Chair by Adam Goodrum

For interesting insights on the Nicholson // Mondrian exhibition and thoughts on their influences go to John Brookes

We hope this blog lifted your thoughts and spirits past the drudgery of the last month (notice how we didn't say the "R" word once?). Just remember - May is around the corner...

Colour Blocking Garden Style Source book: The coolist, Isometrix, Haute Culture, Paola Navione, Visualize, Jilly Welch, Hendy curzon Gardens, John brookes, Design Boom, Pulse store, Asla, Soul of the garden, National Geographic, Decodir, Sweetspot, Homelondike, Andi Surjanto, We heart it, Stardust.