A fashionable little garden

What to wear gardening isn’t something I often really think about (apart from maybe on world naked gardening day). But it’s London fashion week so I headed off gardening with my most fashionable buddy Kate over the weekend and we made a little garden to celebrate these wonderful clothes by Mary Katrantzou. Enjoy.

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A little spiky visitor

I recently became aware of the charity called PTES. They have a wonderful little site full of hedgehog friendly tips, check it out http://www.hedgehogstreet.org/

I was so inspired by what they are doing, I decided to create my own hedgehog friendly pothole garden. You wont believe who stopped by and checked it out…

While my little visitor is an African variety, PTES is all about protecting local species. Here are some more snaps of my new best mate…

A big thanks to Anne and Simeon (official Hedgehog wranglers) and Cheyne for the video!

This week I also learned of this awesome pothole garden hunt in tassie – check it out!

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Holes Of Happiness

One thing that always amazes me is how people react to my gardens. So much so that I’ve created this short film, Holes Of Happiness (with the help of Cheyne and friends).

We tried to capture peoples first reactions to our gardening antics, and we asked them about what they were looking at and why they thought they existed.

Let me know what you think!

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Knitting up a storm…

Inspired by a lovely little piece of knitting sent to me recently, here’s my latest little garden, created in Moss Place East London.

Thank you so much Louise for sending me this lovely little knitted flower which now has a home outside Buckingham Palace, London.

I’d like to dedicate this post to those close to me who have suffered from the effects of cancer this year. Fingers crossed that next year is a healthy one. If you’re doing some last minute shopping for Christmas, why not consider giving in celebration? It’s a great way of giving that helps to benefit Cancer Research.

All the best for 2012.

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A few bricks short in Brick Lane…

Brick Lane, the heart of East London’s street art scene, got a little bit of green fingering over the weekend.

This massive pothole, which has been there for over a month, made the perfect setting for my latest little creation.

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Little moments of happiness…

Here’s a little film featuring my little gardens…

Thanks to the talented Nadia Ackerman for letting me use her wonderful song.

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Floating Filipino government officials in one of my gardens!

I’m not sure if you’ve heard about them, but a blogger picked up some seriously dodgy photoshopping of some Filipino government officials recently, and they’ve become an internet sensation! The trio have been photoshopped everywhere, from South Park to The Price Is Right – check out the Facebook page.

I found it so amusing I’ve put them in one of my pothole gardens!

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Getting dirty for down under…

I blogged recently about my chat with Ryk Goddard on ABC Radio. After our discussion, I agreed to create a little garden for Ryk with an Australian theme. After some searching I managed to find some Kangaroo Paw in London…it’s harder than you might think!

Ryk also discussed Hobart’s Phantom Knitter with me, a lovely project that’s got plenty of press over the past few months.

Well The Phantom Knitter posted me the cuttest little piece of knitting, which I found a home for in Trafalgar Square this morning.

Here’s a little video we made of our antics and a couple of pics. Enjoy!

The Aussie garden…

And The Phantom Knitter goes global!

I also recently submitted a post to My City Is – check it out, it’s a great little project (even though I might be a little biased!) www.mycity.is

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Spring/Summer gardens

As summer limps off and winter rolls in, I thought I’d post some of my favourite green fingered creations from the past Spring/Summer.

The garden I created for the new Westfield on the Olympic site was filmed – here’s the interview:

One of my favourites was the royal wedding garden. I was joined by Kate from I am not a celebrity -

A couple of outings with Stephanie were load of fun, here are some of her brilliant snaps -

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There was also my most ambitious garden ever -

And some of my gardens are even starting to attract some wildlife…

Some Autumnal creations are on their way. I’m also on Facebook and Twitter, come join me!

Some reactions to my gardens…

I think every post on this blog to date has included a garden or two. This post is a little bit different.

One of the things I really enjoy about my gardening adventures is the different reactions people have to my gardens. Most people enjoy them and take them in the way I intended, but not everyone.

Here are some fantastic shots Stephanie has captured of some reactions to a few of my gardens. Enjoy!

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Some love for London…

London, indeed the UK, needs some love right now. My latest little garden is my loving London garden. There are no props, no chairs, no tennis court, just some good old fashioned love.

A rather perplexed, but happy passer by.

As I was walking around looking for a suitable spot for my garden (yes walking, my replacement bike that my mate Kate gave me was stolen during the riots), I spied this new piece and thought it appropriate for this post.

I also spied some of Pablo Delgado’s street art…love it.

Some inspiration from down under

I posted some pics on my facebook page from my recent shoot with Story Worldwide, here is the garden we created (the video is on its way). We had a great morning over on the Olympic site – I created a little picnic garden for all those tired shoppers when the Westfield Centre opens.

 

 

 

A few weeks ago I had a great chat with Ryk Goddard on ABC Tasmania and they’re sending me over some things for a Tasmanian themed pothole garden. I headed to the British Museum to get some inspiration from the Australian Season exhibition. Here are a couple of snaps from the wonderful Australian garden they’ve created.

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to everyone who wrote to me about my stolen bike :) I appreciate it!

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100 little pothole gardens at Cross Bones graveyard

Continuing my adventures south of the river with Stephanie we recently headed to Cross Bones, a post-medieval burial ground for “single women”, a little know site around the corner from Borough markets in South London.

It took quite a while to create these mini gardens, but I thought they were really quite striking!

For more information on the Graveyard, check out the website.

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Confused garden…

I was recently commissioned to create a new little garden for confused.com. I was over the moon, albeit a little intimidated by the brief – to create a little pothole garden with a road running through it with a little street sign warning of the potholes in the road!

This is by far my most ambitious garden yet.

Armed with some tiny conifers, alpine grass, a Dianthus and some others bits and pieces, I found this pothole just off Valance Road in East London, rolled up my sleeves and began gardening. Enjoy!

I did shoot a short film of the dig and I’ll post it shortly.

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Wimbledon

Yesterday I posted some snaps of my Wimbledon garden – as promised here is a short video that Tom and I put together featuring a squirrel and pigeon who were very interested in what we were doing!

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A little clothes line…

Growing up in Australia, my childhood memories are chock full of adventures at the clothes line.

On my recent outing with Stephanie Wolff, I created this little clothes line garden complete with pegs, clothes basket, a fork and a spade.
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Thanks again to Stephanie for these fab pics! You can read her blog, London Insight here.

Todd Bieber recently sent me this video, which documents his vigilante garden in Brooklyn. It reminded me of the vegetable pothole garden I recently blogged about.

Enjoy!

A Winter Garden

I recently headed out on a dig with a French TV crew for some guerilla gardening…it was load of fun – they sure were up for an adventure.

I snapped my latest little garden right before it was rundown :(

(I’m totally addicted to the hipstamatic app on my iphone!)

A winter garden

Here’s an excerpt from my recent interview for a German TV channel that I did earlier in the year…