Owen Clutton Web Site

This is my own garden, completely redeveloped in 2006

My job started 'on the back' of my love of plants and being creative. In my work nowadays I spend most of my time finding and then working solutions to clients' individual garden requirements, mainly on the landscaping side. As a leisure activity I enjoy propagating and growing things. I spend a certain amount of time in nurseries, looking and learning and sometimes buying. I am enthusiastic about what are possibly the more unusual plants, i.e. not the sort of thing that I would necessarily find in other peoples' gardens. I cannot grow big shrubs and trees because I do not have a very big garden, but I like experimenting for 'impact'.

In each of my own gardens I have made a pond, mainly because I like the attraction this holds for nature and wildlife. My idea of a pond is a haven for small creatures, surrounded by and filled with plants. Unfortunately my dog regards the pond as a swimming pool which is a bit of a worry with a butyl liner.

Partly due to major building works in 2005/6, the garden which was here was completely destroyed, including most of its perimeter fences. As I have quite fixed ideas about what I want in my own garden, I decided to totally redevelop it, commencing with re-landscaping it and altering its layout followed by more detailed work.

There is nothing left of what was here before; I have changed everything including all of the plants. My garden is on a slope and when I bought it some attempt had been made to terrace this but not very effectively. I have ripped everything out and landscaped it into three distinct levels consisting of a top terrace, a middle pond and utility bit and a lower level which is currently a kitchen garden. Planting surrounds everything.