Hi and a big warm Welcome,

OK, I’ve finally got round to getting some content up here for you. Sorry it’s taken a while, but sometimes life just catches up with you!

Many of you have already written to me requesting information on what I’ll be providing on this website. For those of you who’ve patiently been waiting…..many, many thanks for holding on and I promise, it will be worth it……..but who am I and what are my credentials? Well, I’ve created a separate page for you that gives a more Curriculum Vitae-type description.

In a nutshell however, my name is David MacQueen and I’ve been a Garden and Landscape Designer since 1993. I’m an artist, designer, keen photographer and now thanks to this blog, a writer too! As a designer, I greatly enjoy a challenge and some of my most satisfying designs have been created from the most challenging of “problems”. My design philosophy comes from a strong architectural background…….often evident through creative soft and structural planting details.

What do you hope to gain by coming to this website? Hopefully, you’ll gain the tools to go out and design your own private space with confidence, imagination and style. For many the very concept of garden design is a mystery only known to those who’ve studied the art for many years. There’s no denying it IS an incredibly concentrated subject and the more one looks into it, the more related subjects one can explore.

I want to show that it is possible, with a good understanding and background knowledge in the core subjects, to design and create your own secret garden for yourselves. I make no assumptions to your climate or your soil conditions, so you could be reading this from anywhere in the world and apply simple techniques to achieve your desired effect in your own garden.

I want to encourage your comments, your thoughts and your interaction with myself and the members of this site. From time to time, I’d like to post some interesting little anecdotes to problems, reader’s personal garden stories and photos (with your permission of course).

All in all, I’d like this website to help YOU create your own garden and landscape space that means the world to you.

Till next time,

David

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