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NEWS – The Telegraph features Ann-Marie Powell’s personal lockdown project My Real Garden

So delighted to be featured in The Telegraph's Clare Coulson on online feeds offering the very best gardening advice online for my personal lockdown project @myrealgarden on Instagram. Lockdown has been a great impetus in making me a better gardener and I have been loving sharing this journey with thousands of others.   "The best [...]

By |2024-07-16T17:18:49+00:00April 18th, 2020|News|

Ann-Marie to speak about her ‘Passion for Plants’

The Octagon Garden Club and Friends of St Mary’s Church, Stoughton invite you to a talk entitled A PASSION FOR PLANTS: Favourite colour schemes and selections from Ann-Marie’s notebook.  This will be held on Wednesday, 6th November 2019 at 6.00 pm for 6.30 pm at the School Hall, Compton.  Entrance £10 on the door to [...]

By |2020-09-23T20:45:16+00:00November 1st, 2019|News|

Women of the Year & Ann-Marie Powell

Ann-Marie is honoured, proud, (and slightly self-conscious!) about being nominated as a Woman of the Year at the annual Women of the Year Lunch and Awards sponsored by Barclays.  The annual event (this year being held on Monday 14th October 2019 at the Royal Lancaster London), is the longest running celebration of extraordinary women in [...]

By |2020-09-23T20:45:16+00:00October 11th, 2019|News|

Wallpaper* Magazine features Cottonmill Spa & Club at Sopwell House — St Albans, UK

We are delighted to have been featured in prestigious Wallpaper* Magazine for our new garden at Cottonmill Spa and Club at Sopwell House. As the ubiquity of private members’ clubs grow, Sopwell House, the grand Hertfordshire-based hotel, has taken the quest for exclusivity quite seriously with the relaunch of its wellness facilities into a sprawling [...]

By |2020-09-23T20:45:17+00:00September 25th, 2019|News|

Your autumn bulb planting questions answered

It’s a busy and important time of the year for garden forward planning with the added pressure that many of these tasks are time-sensitive too; at AMPG, there’s no doubt that we entering prime planting season. But whilst you’re considering plugging border gaps with herbaceous, trees or shrubs, don’t forget about that group of plants [...]

By |2020-09-23T20:45:17+00:00September 23rd, 2019|Blog|

FIRST LOOK: Sopwell House’s new Cottonmill spa prepares to open after £14m project

The new spa at Sopwell House Hotel is opening its doors, following a £14m investment project. Cottonmill is a new three-storey, private members spa, which offers two tiers of memberships to both hotel guests and non-residents. Sparcstudio, a privately-owned, creative, design studio that has established an enviable reputation for producing highly successful, creative and award [...]

By |2020-09-23T20:45:18+00:00September 16th, 2019|News|

Springload your borders with Ann-Marie Powell Gardens

Finally, the days are getting brighter and ever so slightly longer, and as adventurous stems begin to unfurl from long slumbering soil, the optimism of the new garden season reaches from the border into our studio. March is the time that farmers to begin planting spring crops and us gardeners to prise open sheds and [...]

By |2020-09-23T20:45:19+00:00March 5th, 2019|Blog|

Fall in love with your garden – and reclaim grown-up space…

Having just returned to the studio after maternity leave, whilst at home with my new baby, I heard the phrase: 'Remember to look after yourself and take time off as a couple once you have had the baby' countless times. ''Yes yes, of course, I will'', I *might* have dared to think, assuming I'd master [...]

By |2024-07-16T17:26:04+00:00February 14th, 2019|Blog|

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