Dave Negus

I’m delighted to share that Reflections, a garden I designed and which Paul Greenyer and his team at InsideOut Home & Garden Improvements brought to life, has won the Residential Project Over $500k category in the Europe Heat of the 2027 Pro Landscaper International Awards. Paul collected the award at Future Scape in Farnborough. Seeing him holding the trophy is a proud moment, and a lovely opportunity to celebrate the work that went into this garden. The project began with a steep lakeside...

Clay workshop insights I swapped the laptop for three days of mud at EARTH:BODY—an earthen art workshop led by the brilliant Becky Gilling at Wick Farm in Somerset. The timing was perfect. I’ve got an idea bubbling away for an upcoming garden. I’m keeping the details under wraps for now, but I wanted to understand earth as a creative and construction material properly—not just through photographs and reference projects. There’s only so much you can learn from a screen. Sometimes you need to...

While watching Train Dreams ( a film i love ) , one line stayed with me: “A dead tree can be as important as a living one.” It is a simple observation, but it challenges how we often think about landscapes. We tend to value trees while they are growing, flowering and producing leaves. Once a tree dies, the instinct is often to remove it immediately. It looks untidy. It feels unsafe. It appears to have lost its purpose. But in ecological terms, a dead tree may be entering one of the most...