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Partners
We work with a number of other businesses that can help provide us with the items you want. We are a resource for gardening, after all…
For plants we we work with Jersey Plants Direct – they also offer free delivery on plants and we like that.
Cut flower queries allow us to send you to the Queen of the home grown flower growers art, Sarah Raven. Use this resource she provides!
For gardening books where better is there to go than Amazon
For the computer we use we have partnered to work with Panda Security UK because you need anti-virus software to protect what you create.
For garden products we work with Garden Trading, Harrod Horticultural and Agriframes (who do frames for the garden, of course…)
Anything to do with ponds go to Pondkeeper.
Mowers and lawn care products can be found here at Rolawn, Lawn Mowers UK and Mow Direct.
For ecologically considered products we use Natural Collection. Please change how you shop and use them to.
You have to eat well – gardening burns a lot of calories – so do buy your food from Donald Russell and Pong Cheese. Yum!
Love Lula? We do, as they offer something unusual – vegan products. Our vegan friends need caring for to…
Home and office need a design spruce up? Try the fabulous Royal Design.
When you’re tired from a long day in the garden, we offer you a cup of tea… and a piece of chocolate!
And finally we partner with LED Hut for lighting…
Do make the most of these companies and use what they are offering!
Why I Wrote The Book Modern Topiary
I have written this book, Modern Topiary, because I wanted a collation of useful information that would give people access to everything they need to know in order to start making topiary. Topiary is an amazing (and niche) line of work to follow – amazing because it offers up opportunities to travel all over the world, making gardens, meeting people… but also, the work is intensely physical, hands-on, yet requires creative thinking in order to solve the puzzle of how to make the shapes you want. This mixture of the craft and the art is what I love the most …
Buxus the Norfolk Terrier In Modern Topiary Book
This is Buxus, our Norfolk Terrier, who I acknowledge in the acknowledgments of the book of Modern Topiary. The book of Modern Topiary can be read, for free, here. There you go. Buxus the dog on ‘doorstep duty’ at a friend’s house in Edinburgh. For those asking what he looked like!
What People Think Of Modern Topiary, The Book
Yesterday I put out the book – Modern Topiary – that I have spent the last six years writing. Download for free a pdf of Modern Topiary here. And what seems amazing to me, is that not only have people actually been reading it, but then responding to it. So below are a number of comments I have been sent from those who read it last night, and this morning…. “Brilliant read, exactly the right amount of info to take in and digest.” Rachel, a gardener “I love your book, the advice is so straightforward and your writing is so …