Diary of a garden designer
Thomas Hoblyn on the highs and lows of life as a garden designer
Natural swimming pools: I love mine, but try telling my clients that
Tom Hoblyn installed a natural swimming pool in his garden as a way of promoting the idea to his clients. So far, it’s proved a hard sell
Clipped to perfection: why topiary is still top of the tree at Chelsea
Chelsea designer Tom Hoblyn has planted plenty of sculpted topiary shapes in his time, but is it time for a new style of trained planting?
Urban grit: a design for the Greenwich Gateway Pavilions
When garden designer Tom Hoblyn teamed up with gardener Alys Fowler and interior designer Tom Dixon to design a three-acre plot in London, he didn’t know what to expect: would a three-way creative collaboration work?
Concepts in clay
Tom Hoblyn wrestles with clay and computer software as he works up plans for new garden design commissions
Wind tunnels and chicken of the woods
Tom Hoblyn finds himself in a wind tunnel in aid of good garden design, while back home the fungi are enjoying the autumn weather
Pitch imperfect
Tom Hoblyn looks back on a tricky journey to an important pitch for a garden design contract, and considers the state of his vegetable patch
Set in stone
A Chelsea flower show pitch and a row over an order of paving stones keep garden designer Tom Hoblyn on his toes
Chelsea 2014 - a designer's view
Garden designer Tom Hoblyn picks his favourite planting combinations from this year's Chelsea flower show
An Easter gardening mystery
With pests and diseases besetting his own garden, designer Tom Hoblyn's attentions are elsewhere as he woos potential new clients - and tries to find out just who is beheading his spring flowers
Everything's peachy
Garden designer Tom Hoblyn gets his teeth stuck into a new garden restoration project but can't help worrying about his peach trees.
New clients, old ideas
The climate - economic and meterological - creates challenges for garden designer Tom Hoblyn
2013: feast and famine
Garden designer Tom Hoblyn picks his plant of the year and looks back at how his business fared in 2013
Selling English gardens to the Americans
A trip to Boston finds garden designer Tom Hoblyn flying the flag for English horticulture
A trip to Orchard Dene
A gathering of garden designers and other garden profesionals proves inspirational to Tom Hoblyn
Buying boulders on Bodmin Moor
Designer Tom Hoblyn visits Cornwall to help a client choose a striking new feature for their garden
Making meadows
This week garden designer Tom Hoblyn is busy creating and maintaining meadows
Going public
Will designer Tom Hoblyn's own garden pass muster at the village open gardens weekend?
Chelsea flower show 2013 - an expert view
Garden designer and Chelsea regular Tom Hoblyn picks his favourite gardens from this year's show
Lining up
Garden designer Tom Hoblyn's work takes him from one end of the St Michael's ley line to the other
Spring stirs
Has prairie planting had its day, and when will the crocuses open? Tom Hoblyn will have to wait and see
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