Rory Andrews Landscape Design

12/05/2026

The first spring in this compact but well considered front , having been planted in a rather hot August last year. Great planting from , and .nursery. The huge Himalayan Dogwood and Japanese maple had to be craned into place.

A brief for the garden was to consider access to the front door (which is now wheelchair accessible for future proofing) and the side access, whilst creating somewhere to sit and enjoy the evening Sun, as well as doing justice to the lovely Edwardian façade of the house. The final photos shows what we started with.

Materials include ‘antique Romsey’ brick , self-binding gravel and reclaimed York stone .

Given the addition of 3 new trees to this space, as well as the northwest facing aspect, most planting is shade tolerant and will create a lush, verdant space in the years to come, whilst still soaking up the evening sun. Other structural planting includes a mix of yew and beech topiary, all organically shaped to create year round structure, as well as screening to/from the road beyond.

11/05/2026

Spring/early summer always seems the best time to visit . The entrance of damp, shady conditions is beautifully planted in a way that perfectly blends the natural with ornamental, but the whole garden is a treat, right down to the red and green garden for the cafe. The tables and the plethora of green structure will be bolstered by red from peonies and roses shortly, but we were just a bit too early. Highly recommend a visit!

05/05/2026

and . A magical stretch of chalk stream in Letcombe Regis that is part of . Highly recommended. The meadows look for to burst too. I’ll be returning in a month or so to see the change.

03/05/2026

After the . Peak

29/04/2026

A bit of an anomaly in this two-tone Lunaria annua, in a friend’s planted 2 years ago. Has anyone seen anything like it?

The friend/client is a expert, so the garden is planted and maintained in a -sensitive way. The spring colour was mostly gone, with the main show to come, but the planting still maintains a nice rhythm in texture and feeling of evolving organically.

25/04/2026

The . and from Malus ‘Evereste’.

22/04/2026

15/04/2026

Recent shots of a garden beautifully built by . This cottage garden previously had concrete paving throughout the back, as well as unstructured - albeit well-planted - borders.

The brief was to create a new dining terrace, an evening terrace to the west of the house and include a sauna and shower. Meanwhile, the front garden of lawn and scrappy shrubs was to be replaced with a gravel garden, adding an evergreen hedge for privacy in the east-facing kitchen windows.

In addition, the front door threshold was old, wobbly concrete, so a new threshold of reclaimed York stone and limestone pitchers was built, alongside a geometric steel-edged gravel approach, to add form and weight to the front entrance.

Materials from

Willow hurdles

Water feature

Planting

14/04/2026

Happy 40th birthday ! The most generous, caring and loving mother (of boys and cats) and tolerant wife. Here’s to the next 40!

PS a shout for the lovely portraits (at the end). Kate is delighted. She was ‘expecting some sort of art’, but weirdly not of her boys. She’s most pleased I’m not in the pictures…

14/04/2026

13/04/2026

Peak time of year for this part of the