As part of a new occasional blog series ‘Meet the Maker’ we speak to artist Emily Ellen, a Sussex based watercolour illustrator whose cards we have recently started stocking in the Denmans Gift Shop. Art has been a constant [...]
“Let’s start with a pergola. If I paint a picture of dappled light filtering through the leaves of a climbing rose hung with scented flowers, of the evening fragrance of honeysuckle and bunches of grapes temptingly beyond reach – you [...]
‘To rely entirely on planting as the backbone of a garden for the whole year is asking too much.’ So wrote award-winning landscape designer John Brookes MBE (1933–2018) for House & Garden Magazine in 1963, in which he laid out [...]
