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Feb 20

Everything is design inspiration!

#regenerativedesign
#proforma for a maquette for a spot in a special garden
@marianboswallstudio

What would it be for you?
#landscapearchitecture
#natureismytemple

Feb 20

..My white petals semaphore that spring is on its way

~ Sarah Salway
from
Ten poems about Snowdrops
@sarahsalway
@ candlestickpress

The magical natural snowdrop vale @chillingham_castle

Feb 16

When I was four, I camped out
one night in a garden den with
my big sister. I woke to darkness and silence. Frightened, I peered out of the den. And there saw my
grandmother, sleeping in a chair among the roses. A rug over her knees, she was watching over us.

Her kind presence transformed
the garden. It became an enchanted place full of ancient sounds and mysterious scents. I became lost in wonder, enthralled by the magic of every detail. That feeling of connection, kindness and being totally absorbed in my surroundings is something
I like to feel in every garden I design.

~ The Kindest Garden

What are your earliest memories of a garden and how have they influenced your garden or garden designs through your life?

The Kindest Garden, with gorgeous photos by @jasoningram is published by @franceslincolnpub and ready to pre order now from all good independent bookshops and online. Link also in bio.

Written for gardeners and designers who want to know more about how to garden and design regeneratively and be kind to our soil, our guts, and our spirit.

Thank you if you have pre ordered, it’s a big help to get the word out that kindness is a super power.

#regenerativedesign
#plantingdesign
#marianboswalllandscapes
@quartobooksuk
@marianboswallstudio

Feb 16

Dry-shod, o’er sands, twice every day,
The pilgrims to the shrine find way;
Twice every day, the waves efface
Of staves and sandalled feet the trace.

~ Lindisfarne by Walter Scott

A dash to Holy Island between the tides ~ a pilgrimage to the end of the line, and a moment to connect with a friend at the southern end. Like holding a tin can to our ears with a piece of string slung across hundreds of miles.

#holyisland
#Ley
With lovely company @chimigreen 🙏

Feb 15

Every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which most often intimates itself to us as the power to love and create.
~ Hermann Hesse,

Feb 7

Posted @withregram • @marianboswallstudio ‘I found myself crying ‘yes, yes, yes!’ to every page of this beautiful, inspiring, visionary yet practical and compassionate book. This is how we can garden to restore the planet, how we can all do our bit, and enrich our lives in the process.’

~ Isabella Tree, author of Wilding, and the Book of Wilding, and pioneering steward of Knepp together with Charlie Burrell.

We are thrilled to reveal the cover of The Kindest Garden, the latest book by @marianboswall , with photography by @jasoningram.

Following on from her extremely successful first book ‘Sustainable Garden’ which was shortlisted for Garden Book of the Year in 2022, The Kindest Garden is a practical guide to all areas of regenerative gardening. With generous plans, diagrams and clear explanations, and stunning photography by @jasoningram , it is also a soulful book, emphasising the huge importance of community, nature and spirituality and the integral role caring for our gardens plays in the future of our world.

The book is available to pre-order from all good bookshops and several locations online ~ see link in bio.

Marian will be speaking at some key festivals, gardens, regenerative estates and independent bookstores this year, more details on the @marianboswallstudio website.

Thank you @isabella.tree for reading an early proof and the above words, and @franceslincolnpub @quartobooksuk @alicefagraham for the commission.

Additional portrait photos with book above by @cecelinatornberg

Dec 21

The light is returning ✨✨✨

If you follow the seasons you might like to do this review with me.

Using this wheel template and your diaries or photos go through the key points in the last quarters and see what gave you most joy. And maybe feel into what was perhaps more useful than joyful..

Here are a few of my key moments with my deepest thanks and love to the people (and all other beings) in and out of these photos who have brought me so much joy. Thank you.

If you’d like me to send you a copy of the template just say so below.

Happy solstice!

#happysolstice
#solsticeblessings
#solstice

9.21 21.12.24

Dec 19

Work in progress

#marianboswalllandscapes
#landscapearchitecture
#workinprogress
#lovemyjob
#lovemyart

Dec 19

Rest is not an absence. It’s a radical act of regeneration.

Do you struggle to rest amongst all the lights and bustle and built-in busyness ?

Or do you resist rest, perhaps afraid of losing control, falling behind or being judged as… fill in your own blank.

Whenever I take time to rest and allow listening to still my busy mind, I find my best insights and inspirations. They are waiting patiently, just beyond the noise and striving of the everyday.

And when my mind stops leading my body on its wild and merry dance and I sit, quiet amongst moss and roots and musty smells of wintering, I am gifted a place in nature’s radical process of renewal.

The light begins to return the day after tomorrow. If like me 5pm currently feels like 9pm you’re probably well aware of this, but don’t hurry it. See if you can treat 6pm as 10pm, just whenever you can, and reap the rewards of deep winter rest.

#wintering
#wintersolstice
#winterrest
#rest
#regeneration
#regenerativedesign

Dec 17

A glimpse is as good as a stare.. like a camera shutter some impressions can be imprinted with a blink or a glance.

Here a view through frames and leads the way to other possibilities.

This one into a beautiful barn - a yoga studio - through a new oak pergola now ten years old and blissfully heavy with rose.

#landscapearchitect
#lovemyjob
#marianboswalllandscapes
@thesecretbreath

Dec 16

Do not try to save the whole world or do anything grandiose.
 Instead, create a clearing in the dense forest of your life and wait there patiently, until the song that is your life falls into your own cupped hands and you recognise and greet it.
 Only then will you know how to give yourself to this world so worthy of rescue.

~ Martha Postlethwaite

#wintering

Reflections from a visit to the sacred Blickmead springs

#fullmoonenergy
#marthapostlewaite
#poetry
#mondayinspiration
Have a great week ✨

Dec 14

Sense of place, sense of space.

I love abundance and a sense of refuge amongst the myriad creatures of our living world. And I also love calm and peace and a sense of gentle order. And we can have both. I’ll share more images of the abundantly planted and detailed areas of this garden, but for now here is part of the arrival courtyard. A simple celebration of the space, the fabulous trees around it and the ancient listed barn. A gathering in of good energy in what is called the ming tang in feng shui, and can be thought of as a welcome hall.

Car parking is moved away from the arrival (with discreet access for shopping and luggage of course) and there is time to gather one thoughts and simply arrive.

#gardendesignideas
#marianboswalllandscapes
#autumngardens
@thesecretbreath
@marianboswallstudio

Dec 11

Not your normal Christmas lunch, but then we’re not a normal design studio..

Less sequins and heels and more two coats, gloves hats and binoculars.. Our idea of heaven!

After a hearty Christmas lunch of local cheese bread and festive fare we headed across the 3,000 acre SSSI nature reserve with long term steward Gareth Fulton explaining how his family and team looks after the land and also provides access to wildlife enthusiasts photographers and school children, as well as corporate outings, weddings and overnight stays in glamping shepherds huts or the farm house. Lots of incredible history AND we saw short eared owls, hares, plovers, stone chat, curlews, godwits, marsh harriers, shovel billed ducks, and the gorgeous pigs who are ruttling up edges for other birds to forage.

Simon and Fiona answered loads of questions in the bird hide while we spotted snipe in the half light, then we all bundled home in the landrover with rugs and a spaniel to dodge the squall.

I feel incredibly lucky to work with a team that are not only brilliant designers and deeply thoughtful people, but that also see this as being as much fun as I do! And to know people like Gareth who are such great guardians of the land.

Thank you @elmleynature 🙏

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#christmasdo
#officeparty
#lifeasalandscapearchitect
#chooselandscape
@choose_landscape
@marianboswallstudio
@naomiwarman @sophie.a.pollock
@geographyjoe @viewbusinessmanagement @landworkerlucy @simonginnaw 🙏

Dec 1

He who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sunrise.

~ William Blake

#williamblake
#poetry
#mondayinspiration
#eternity
#impermanence
#carpediem
#sunriselove
#seizethemoment
@samahitaretreat 🙏 @gbreetzke 🙏

Nov 28

Rise up this morning, smiled with the rising sun.
Three little birds pitch by my doorstep
Singing sweet songs, of melodies pure and true
Saying, “This is my message to you-ou-ou”

Singing, “Don’t worry about a thing
‘Cause every little thing is gonna be alright”
Singing, “Don’t worry about a thing (Don’t worry)
‘Cause every little thing is gonna be alright!”

~ Bob Marley and the Wailers

We used to play this on repeat during my o’level year, putting the needle back to the beginning of the single each time like repeating a mantra.

Everything is going to be alright. And of course it was. Not necessarily as we each planned, but just as it should be.

Celebrating Thanksgiving and an extra turn around the sun with some wonderful time to pause, and giving thanks for all my friends - feathered and unfeathered - that make everything just so very all right.
😘🤗🙏

#bobmarleymusic
#everythingisgoingtobealright
#retreat

@samahitaretreat

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