{"id":7830,"date":"2025-02-19T20:43:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T19:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/?p=7830"},"modified":"2025-04-14T15:23:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T14:23:40","slug":"what-makes-a-great-garden-by-annie-guilfoyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/?p=7830","title":{"rendered":"What makes a Great Garden? by Annie Guilfoyle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On 12 February, Grayshott Gardeners were treated to a very interesting talk from Annie Guilfoyle on<em> What makes a great garden?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"794\" height=\"535\" src=\"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/A-Guilfoyle-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7832\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/A-Guilfoyle-1.jpg 794w, https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/A-Guilfoyle-1-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Annie is an award-winning designer and a RHS Chelse Flower Show Silver Medallist.\u00a0 She runs a garden design consultancy called Creative Landscapes and her design work has been featured on television programmes.\u00a0 Annie is also a garden course consultant at West Dean College and teaches at Great Dixter House and Gardens in East Sussex.\u00a0 Apart from lecturing internationally, she is also a regular judge for the Society of Garden Designers and has had articles published in Gardens Illustrated.\u00a0 As well as supporting many charities, she has an online masterclass with Noel Kingsley.\u00a0 One Social Enterprise she mentioned was <em>The Greenhouse<\/em> based in Kent which offers second chances through horticultural training to women based in UK prisons.\u00a0 Their garden won a Gold at Chelsea in 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"805\" height=\"538\" src=\"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/A-Guilfoyle-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7834\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/A-Guilfoyle-2.jpg 805w, https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/A-Guilfoyle-2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 805px) 100vw, 805px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Annie showed slides of different types of gardens in the UK, America, the Netherlands, and New Zealand, describing how different climates, texture, structures, focus and repetition can be used to in a garden, also explaining how structural planting enhances a garden.\u00a0 If you incorporate different trees, topiary, clipped hedges as well as shrubs and perennials, (not forgetting bulbs and old-fashioned plants), it will give gardens focus and interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"808\" height=\"538\" src=\"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/A-Guilfoyle-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/A-Guilfoyle-3.jpg 808w, https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/A-Guilfoyle-3-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 808px) 100vw, 808px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>She ended the evening by saying:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>                                                      \u2018However, it\u2019s your garden, so do your own thing\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"783\" height=\"687\" src=\"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/A-Guilfoyle-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7838\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/A-Guilfoyle-4.jpg 783w, https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/A-Guilfoyle-4-300x263.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 783px) 100vw, 783px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Annie Guilfoyle<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Text by Eda Hughes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 12 February, Grayshott Gardeners were treated to a very interesting talk from Annie Guilfoyle on What makes a great garden? 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