Matt Slade Landscape Design

Planted a couple months ago, this little east facing garden is thriving! 🌿🌿🌿

We used Donnybrook sandstone from to clad the steps and create an informal entry path, tying in nicely with the existing paving.

Some Chelsea highlights, always a great show, even if I am a jet-lagged zombie.

I was lucky enough to go to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show this year! It was brilliant and inspiring...

One thing that really stood out was a general commitment to creating gardens that have a low impact on the planet and respond to the climate, e.g.:

- Gardens that encourage better management of rain water and help with flash flooding
- Gardens built without using a single power tool
- Gardens incorporating reused materials that would otherwise end up in landfill
- Displays that used clay wildlife ponds, h**p walls, cork walls, and planting schemes that are diverse and feel wild - not perfect and manicured - encouraging more diverse fauna.

Creating gardens is as much about our enjoyment as they are an opportunity to restore and regenerate the land.