Cleve West Landscape Design

22/12/2022

Celebrating the 100th episode of Talking Dirty with Alan Gray and Thordis Friedrichsen...

It's our 100th episode and to mark it we're celebrating the return of an RHS Chelsea Flower Show 'Great'. In 2023 Cleve West returns to Main Avenue with The ...

15/05/2020

Book launch :The Garden of Vegan

Some of you may have more important things on your mind at the moment but, if you need a little distraction by way of a book, The Garden of Vegan, is published today by Pimpernel Press. It covers my transition from vegetarian to vegan in 2015, what I’ve learnt about the exploitation and injustices...

07/09/2018

New blog post:
A Garden for Hell’s Gate

12/08/2018

Join us Saturday 15th September for the first ever Vegan Garden Festival at The Plant Centre
There will be talks, advice, Q&A and some great vegan food from and
Please check out the post on the Instagram account or website for more information and to book your (free) place.
http://www.hortusloci.co.uk

10/07/2018

New blog post: Hampton Court Flower Show - Over the Top

Garden designer, Cleve West reviews of some of the show gardnes at the 2018 Hampton Court Flower Show.

25/06/2018

New blog post and video: Back to School

A little over two years ago I received a pile of beautifully illustrated letters from pupils at Christ Church CE Primary School, Battersea. They were asking if I could help them transform part of their school playground into a garden. At the time I was up to my neck in preparations for the Chelsea F...

28/05/2018

http://www.clevewest.com/sow/chelsea-flower-show-2018/

Press Day at Chelsea this year had us breakfasting at the Wulf and Lamb, a minute walk from Sloane Square. If ever there was a reason to do another show garden, this is it. As ever there were many gardens to enjoy, some more deserving of their awards than others and some very fortunate indeed … Co...

10/05/2018

http://www.clevewest.com/sow/allotment-open/

It’s our allotment open day this weekend. Click HERE for details. There are around 400 plots in total in various states of management, some with views to the adjacent Bushy Park. Ours, at the north-end next to the communal orchard, is having some time-out with a sort of ley year, experimenting wit...

01/05/2018

“Cover your eyes and make a wish...”

There was a time when I used to think of garden design as a frivolous affair. I wasn’t unhappy, don’t get me wrong. What with some successful show gardens and a range of interesting projects it’s been an interesting journey so far. However, there’s always been a nagging feeling that I could ...

24/04/2018

New blog alert!
SOW

Sow (verb) 1. To scatter (seed) over land, earth, etc. 2. To plant seed of crops (or, perhaps. ideas…) “You can resist an invading army, you cannot resist an idea whose time has come.” Victor Hugo Earth Day seems like an appropriate time to start this so…Welcome to SOW, a blog/journal coveri...

23/03/2017

Blimey, ages since I've posted anything on here. Apologies. I'm speaking at the Gardens Illustrated Festival this weekend (Saturday) if you want to hear about Healing Gardens. http://www.gardensfestival.com/cleve-west-0

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