The awards ceremony for the 2026 Society of landscape & Garden Designers (https://www.theenglishgarden.co.uk/gardens/garden-design/shortlist-announced-for-sgld-awards-2026/ ) is finally here.

Our Town House Garden - East Sussex (https://www.nicholasmorton.co.uk/landscapes/town-house-garden-east-sussex) is up for an award so our fingers will be crossed. Looking forward to the event and seeing lots of familiar faces later…

Over the last few months it has been a great to be part of a fantastic team working on the plans for a 20 bedroom boutique hotel in the Bannau Brycheiniog National Park. Penrhadw Farm https://www.penrhadw.co.uk/development is the exciting development of a boutique hotel, restaurant and gardens by the client and led from a design perspective by George & Co Architecture https://www.georgeandco.studio/ . We are still at the planning stage but it is exciting to see how this has developed and how this is continuing to develop as we create the unified plans for buildings and landscape for this wonderful pastoral site located on the edge of the National park and with beautiful views up into the park and across to the Brecon Mountain Railway. Watch this space…

I’m never quite sure what I feel about the ‘Memories’ function on Social media apps. However, this came up on my feed this weekend for the anniversary of winning the Society of Garden Designers (SGD) student award in 2013 https://sgld.org.uk/events/awards/archive/winners-2013/#&gid=29&pid=1 . For once it felt appropriate, and a little nerve-wracking, as I am on the shortlist for another Society of Landscape & Garden Designers (Now the SGLD) award this weekend. Exciting to be in the company of so many amazing designers. Whatever happens it is a great evening and chance to see so many amazing people from the industry. Fingers crossed.

Creating a bespoke garden is a collaborative process.

The client for this project had a large quantity of Rosa Sceptr’d Isle they wanted to include in the design.

It wasn’t something I had thought about before – but it was exciting to go all in – adding more cream roses and chartreuse grasses to soften the palette.

We both loved the result. Often the best ideas come from a meeting of minds.

To bring your ideas to life and start your garden project contact us on studio@nicholasmorton.co.uk or 07958 235423.