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A year of pruning, blooming and neighbourhood love

24th May 2021  by Marion Mako 

Well, what a year. You all still there at the back?  Like most people, my life has completely transformed over the past 14 months. When the pandemic struck last March, virtually all my work disappeared overnight: no teaching, no talks, no tours or travel. Instead my focus turned fully local – helping neighbours and my […]

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Unlocking stories: 2020 in events, tours and talks

14th March 2020  by Marion Mako 

Behind every garden lies a story, and it’s my privilege to be able to unveil these hidden narratives. While you’ll often find me surrounded by a huge pile of landscape books, or knee-deep in a muddy plot somewhere, some of my favourite moments of the year come when I get to lead a garden tour.  […]

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My favourite garden ever?

30th August 2017  by Marion Mako 

When I lead garden tours, people often ask me which is my favourite garden. It’s a question I have come to fear and dodge around, because in all honesty I don’t have one. I have loads! Different styles for different days and moods – a bit like the clothes I choose to wear each day. […]

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"Water is the eye of a landscape."
Anonymous
"The best way to get real enjoyment out of the garden is to put on a wide straw hat, hold a little trowel in one hand and a cool drink in the other."
Charles Barr
"Within this dell’s green anodyne – Where drowsy falls the thrush’s song – Where flowery cups spill opiate wine – There dwells a slug four inches long."
H.J. Massingham
"The traveller returning from Italy, with his eyes and imagination full of the ineffable Italian garden-magic, knows that he has been under its spell and that it is more potent, more enduring, more intoxicating to every sense than the most elaborate effects of modern horticulture."
Edith Wharton
"A Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
Greek Proverb
"Gardening and architecture owe as much to the nobility and to men of fortune as to the professors."
Horace Walpole
"Find Joy in the sky, the trees, the flowers. There are flowers everywhere for those who want to see them."
Henri Matisse
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