How do you garden? Do you do it mindfully and carefully, tending to your plants? Or are you more like me, trying to prevent yourself from rushing everything, like it’s some crazy competition?

I recently did an edit for the The Salon, and the theme was… pauses, and how I find them in a garden. Because what I really need to do in my own garden, after a long week of work, client calls, spreadsheets, planting plans and site visits, is find calm and perspective. You can read the edit here - it was fun and pure indulgence to put it together. I hope you enjoy it too!

But I can’t take much of my own advice as it is truly a busy and exciting and energising time of year and everything seems to be happening at once. This April the build starts at our Highbury Hill project (with previous client Brandon Schubert on interiors, incidentally you can see the garden we designed at Brandon’s home in this month’s English Garden magazine), and plans continue for other gardens ranging from North London to Wendover to Somerset via Berkshire.

When we’re not designing gardens, we’re busy preparing for a Them Outdoors exhibition at the Garden Museum. If you’re not familiar with this incredible venue and cafe, do look it up. It’s next to Lambeth Palace and is a medieval church that’s been turned into the most glorious gallery, cafe, event and exhibition space. Read all about it below. I would love to see some of you there.

Meanwhile in Wiltshire, the tulips are almost over, a clematis is growing into a sambucus and I’m preoccupied with impressionism… read to the end to hear more!

See you in May,

Tabi x

THEM OUTDOORS AT THE GARDEN MUSEUM

This London Craft Week, Them Outdoors will be at the Garden Museum! With the question - what role does sculpture play in a garden?

For those interested in the design of outdoor spaces, this is an opportunity to explore a collection of contemporary sculpture by artists whose work comes to life in an outdoor environment.

The exhibition will also feature a small selection of our original, design-led furniture, planters and birdhouses. With a focus on materiality, from shell-covered zinc to cleft oak, aluminium, bronze, marble and ceramics, this exhibition offers an encounter with the tactile beauty of the works in dialogue with the planting in the museum’s Dan Pearson-designed courtyard garden.

As well as highlighting the brilliant work of existing Them Outdoors artists we are also adding a few new names to our roster. As ever, these artists are distinguished by their conceptual and considered approach to their craft, working with materials and ideas to stir thought and create beauty in one.

Plan your visit here.

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