‘This garden is so beautiful. People pause, sit and rest. The new garden encourages people to chat together. A garden is so much more than flowers, but a space where people can enjoy life. Well done’.
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We were featured in Ilkley Gazette and Telegraph & Argus regarding our involvement in the transformation of the Ilkley Riverside Memorial Garden.
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Helen Taylor will be running a design master class, an “Introduction to the principles of garden and planting design” on Tuesday 30th November 2021 from 9.30am to 5.00pm at the Art School, Manor Cottage, Manor House Ilkley, LS29 9DT.
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Over the pandemic, we’ve been assisting Friends of Ilkley Riverside Parks (FOIRP) by developing a landscape master plan of improvements for Ilkley Riverside Park
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Helen Taylor Garden Design is 21 years old this month!
Helen established the business in April 1999 and 21 years later is still going strong. Her husband Ian Campbell joined in 2015.
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Helen Taylor Garden Design has won a “Best Of Houzz” award for Customer Service for a third year on Houzz®, the leading platform for home renovation and design.
We were chosen by the millions of homeowners that comprise the Houzz community from among more than 2.5 million active home building, renovation and design industry professionals.
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We are still able to help clients improve their gardens. We can work according to government guidelines on social distancing; we can have initial discussions by phone and follow this up with video calls, we can measure / survey the garden on our own and drawings can be posted or sent electronically.
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We had a lovely holiday in Denmark this summer. We were mostly on the rural west coast of Jutland but had a trip to Aarhus, Denmark’s second city, on the east coast. We were really impressed by the well-designed streets and open spaces in this very ‘liveable’ city.
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For the last 3 years with the support of our clients, we have arranged a day of visits to recently completed gardens we have designed and planted. We invite past, current and prospective clients, as well as other professionals (architects, nursery people) and a few garden enthusiasts.
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Further to our recent appointment to redesign the visitor entrance and central area of the garden at RHS Harlow Carr (see Blog dated 5th June), we were delighted to be invited by Curator Paul Cook to the official opening of the Harlow Carr Flower Show on the 21st of June by none other than Alan Titchmarsh!
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This summer we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the establishment of Helen Taylor Garden Design. We are delighted to be able to mark this special year with our involvement in a very prestigious project at the Royal Horticultural Society Garden at Harlow Carr in Harrogate.
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At this time of year a Wisteria in full bloom is a magnificent sight to behold and our own specimen on the west facing wall of the studio is no exception.
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January and February are considered to be the drabbest months of the year in the garden. The days are short, it’s often dull and wet. However, contrary to this belief, there are many plants that are at their best at this time. This is our top 5.
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We attended a talk on garden lighting organised by the Society of Garden Designers, part of a regular CPD programme, to learn more about this aspect of garden design which can seem a bit daunting, even for garden designers!
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For the last 2 years, we have arranged, with the support of our clients, a day of visits to recently completed gardens in the local area which we have designed. We invite past, current and prospective clients.
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Determined to make time to visit more gardens this year, we made a plan to visit Millgate House Garden in Richmond this May – and were not disappointed! I love walled gardens, and this is a fine example of a small town garden type as well as being a plantsman’s garden.
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