The discovery of crumbling 19th-century walls at ten-acre Old Hall Farmhouse in Norfolk, inspired textile artist Jane-Ann Walton to weave a colour-filled garden along the lines of her favourite book by Frances Hodgson Burnett. By Barbara Segall As featured in the May 2024 issue of The English Garden.
The Wit & Wisdom of Barbara Segall, in Suffolk Magazine
Gardens – growing them and writing about them – have been a life-long passion for the award-winning garden author and journalist Barbara Segall. And there’s still more to come. A profile by Marion Welham for Suffolk Magazine. As featured in the April 2024 issue of Suffolk Magazine.
A Colourful Courtyard Garden – for House Beautiful
This gorgeous blend of lush planting and artful design tricks is a masterclass in how to create a sense of space. Barbara Segall visits garden designer Janey Auchincloss’s courtyard garden in Suffolk. As featured in House Beautiful magazine. As featured in the April 2024 issue of House Beautiful magazine.
A River Runs Through It – for The Garden magazine
As Fullers Mill Garden in Suffolk wells into life, Barbara Segall explores the sparkling wonders of the tranquil waterside space. As featured in The Garden magazine, March 2024
Be a First-Time Show-Stopper – for Garden Design Journal
The annual BBC Gardeners’ World shows – the Spring Fair, GW Live, and the Autumn Fair – offer great opportunities for student, newly qualified and more experienced designers alike to experience the excitement, pressure, and process of creating and presenting an exhibit for competition in a public-facing environment. Barbara Segall finds out more, for Garden…
Book review: Gardening Can Be Murder
A review of Gardening Can Be Murder: How Poisonous Poppies, Sinister Shovels, and Grim Gardens Have Inspired Mystery Writers, by Marta McDowell, for Gardens Illustrated, October 2023.
A Labour of Love – for The English Garden
Thirty years of planning, planting and waiting have paid off, and while maintaining the now-mature topiary in this Suffolk garden is a relentless task, on a crisp morning John and Jenny Brett feel it’s worth the effort, by Barbara Segall. As featured in the December 2023 issue of The English Garden.
Pushing the Boundary – for the Garden Design Journal
Intrusive parking and blocked views stopped a Surrey garden from fulfilling its potential, but by moving and removing hedges and replacing an indifferent lawn with easy-to-maintain gravel and planting beds, Maïtanne Hunt MSGD has created a garden that is characterful and stylish as well as sustainable and biodiverse, writes Barbara Segall. As featured in the…
To the light house – Sue Townsend’s design for an East Anglian coastal home
Sue Townsend MSGD tells Barbara Segall how she has used soft waves of planing to brighten the outside space of an East Anglian coastal home. Published in Garden Design Journal, July 2023.
Big Sky Thinking – Marysa Norris’s Suffolk garden
After leaving London, Marysa Norris revelled in the space around Church Cottage in Suffolk. Her professed love of disorderly planting has resulted in a garden that encompasses formal borders and a relaxed perennial meadow. Barbara Segall explores, for The English Garden, May 2023.