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RHS gold – what does it mean?

by Michael John McGarrThe quest for RHS gold is a long and arduous one, and one which is all too familiar to myself.Our gold medal achievement at RHS Tatton 2017 for the futuristic garden design '2101' was a triumph, which took almost a year to plan and just a few short weeks to execute on the ground.Scars, blood and a descent into alcoholism were just some of the by-products of achieving an accolade on the highest stage of one's industry.Overnight success?The myth of the overnight success is prevalent across all industries. The winner holds up the awards for the cameras

Categories: Awards, Business news, Cheshire, ecological garden design, ecological landscape design, Garden design, innovation, landscape architecture, Landscape design, Manchester, Michael John McGarr, RHS Tatton, Show gardens, Sponsorship, sustainable garden design
November 26th 2019

Houzz awards 2019 – Award Winning Landscape Design.

Houzz Awards 2019 - Warnes McGarr & Co. - Award Winning Landscape Design. Awarded by the community of over 40 million monthly users, annual BOH badge highlights home renovation & design professionals with Top ratings and most popular home designs "Warnes - McGarr & Co. of Wigan has won “Best Of Design ” on Houzz®, the leading platform for home renovation and design. The multi award winning landscape design and build company was chosen by the more than 40 million monthly unique users that comprise the Houzz community from among more than 2.1 million active home building, renovating and design industry professionals.The Best Of Houzz is

Categories: Advice and tips, Architecture, Awards, Bolton, Business news, Cheshire, Garden design, garden lighting, Housebuilding, Lancashire, landscape architecture, Landscape design, Manchester, Michael John McGarr, Outdoor kitchens, Press coverage, rain gardens, Residential garden, RHS Tatton, Robert Warnes, Show gardens, sketchup, Sponsorship, Uncategorised, Wigan
February 4th 2019

Garden lighting in landscape design

By Michael John McGarr Garden lighting in landscape design. Garden lighting in landscape design is extremely important and it is often an afterthought for most clients. However, we encourage them to think about lighting early on. In our British climate, our garden is viewed most of the year from the interior of the property so it is paramount that lighting is effective. This is particularly poignant in winter when shorter days render lighting the most effective feature within a garden.It always make me smile when clients use their garden lighting systems to wow guests at winter dinner parties. It never occurred to them that they would be

Categories: Advice and tips, Architecture, Awards, Bolton, Business news, Cheshire, Garden design, garden lighting, Housebuilding, Lancashire, landscape architecture, Landscape design, Manchester, Michael John McGarr, Outdoor kitchens, Press coverage, rain gardens, Residential garden, RHS Tatton, Show gardens, sketchup, Wigan
January 16th 2019

Landscape design in 2019 – A New Movement.

By Michael John McGarr Our niche within landscape design in 2019. Our niche within landscape design in 2019 has developed from our passion to create gardens that people can use all year round, as well as a continuing trend for outdoor living.We feel that a traditional lawned garden with flower beds around the edges is designed to be viewed through the window and perhaps mowed once a week in the summer to keep it looking spick and span. We can achieve so much more...[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="3600"] Outdoor living space and outdoor kitchen in a landscape design in 2019 by Warnes-McGarr &

Categories: Advice and tips, Architecture, Awards, Bolton, Business news, Cheshire, Garden design, Housebuilding, Lancashire, landscape architecture, Landscape design, Manchester, Michael John McGarr, Outdoor kitchens, Press coverage, rain gardens, Residential garden, RHS Tatton, Show gardens, Sponsorship, Uncategorised, Wigan
January 2nd 2019

RHS Tatton Cheshire - Poisonous Garden Warnes McGarr & Co

The Poisonous Garden planting list

RHS Tatton 2018 in Cheshire launched today, so we were incredibly pleased to present The Poisonous Garden. It was amazing to see crowds of people flowing in when the gates opened at 10am - this might be the busiest year that we've seen yet.We've been planning this design for the best part of 2018, and it's taken us a really long time to find just the right suppliers and the right materials. At 650 sq m, this is a huge project so it was worth every second taken to get it looking perfect.Here is the extensive planting list for the

Categories: Cheshire, Garden design, Landscape design, Manchester, Michael John McGarr, RHS Tatton, Show gardens
July 18th 2018

The Poisonous Garden RHS Tatton Warne McGarr and Co

Building The Poisonous Garden

This week we started on site managing the build of the Poisonous Garden - the pretty large and high profile exhibit for this year's RHS Tatton Flower Show.After three years of creating award-winning show gardens at RHS Tatton, which takes place at Tatton Park in Cheshire, we did look at designing something for other RHS shows. However, in January this year, we were asked by the brilliant RHS events team if we would design the Poisonous Garden. It seems they like what we've been doing and we were honoured to be asked to partner up with them.So, after months and

Categories: Business news, Cheshire, Garden design, landscape architecture, Landscape design, Manchester, Michael John McGarr, RHS Tatton, Show gardens
July 6th 2018

Michael McGarr garden designer The Telegraph

Garden designer Michael McGarr featured in The Telegraph

If you were casually flicking through The Telegraph weekend gardening section over the Easter Bank Holiday weekend, you may have thought - I recognise that face! I recognise that garden full of cacti!Yes, we were featured in a double-page spread this weekend by fantastic garden writer Annie Gatti headlined: Six fresh faces in garden design - how will they change the world? Annie contacted us back in September last year for a chat after we won a gold medal at RHS Tatton 2017, so we've been keeping our eyes out ever since for the resulting feature.It was an honour to

Categories: Business news, Lancashire, Landscape design, Michael John McGarr, Press coverage, RHS Tatton
April 6th 2018

Creating outdoor living spaces that rock and roll!

As former musicians, who still play in their spare time, garden and landscape designers Michael and Rob like bringing their rock and roll approach to re-designing their clients' outdoor living spaces.By Michael McGarrAs a qualified garden designer and ecologist, I believe our outdoor living spaces should do five things. These are:- Take no effort to look after - Encourage wildlife - Produce food - Look amazing - Be an extension of your indoor living space and style This is my starting point for working with clients and for taking a look at how they want to use their space. This

Categories: Advice and tips, Garden design, landscape architecture, Landscape design, Michael John McGarr, Outdoor kitchens, Residential garden, RHS Tatton
March 29th 2018

Warnes McGarr The Poisonous Garden RHS Tatton 2018

Announcing The Poisonous Garden

by Michael John McGarrWe are immensely pleased and excited to announce that Warnes McGarr & Co will be designing and project-managing the Poisonous Garden in association with The RHS for the Tatton Flower in July.After three award-winning years of designing show gardens - including last year's gold-award winning 2101 garden - we're really honoured to be asked back again to design this large visitor attraction.RHS Tatton in Knutsford, Cheshire is also celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2018 so it really is going to be an exciting year.About The Poisonous GardenThe garden will be an exhibition in all that is

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March 1st 2018

Michael John McGarr being interviewed for The Sod Show

Interview on The Sod Show

While at RHS Tatton in July this year exhibiting our multi award-winning garden, our garden designer Michael John McGarr was interviewed by Peter Donegan from The Sod Show.We were already aware of fellow garden designer Pete's brilliant podcasts, so were honoured to be chosen to be featured. Michael had a great chat with Pete about setting up his own consultancy, the pressures of following your own creative path and designing and building show gardens.Take a listen to The Sod Show podcast below and you can always drop them a line on Twitter @sodshow to let them know you enjoyed it.

Categories: Business news, Cheshire, Garden design, Michael John McGarr, Press coverage, RHS Tatton
October 5th 2017

Our RHS Tatton garden in Cheshire won three awards – including gold!

We are immensely chuffed that our Cactus-Direct: 2101 garden won triple awards at RHS Tatton 2017 in Cheshire - including the much-coveted GOLD award.On Tuesday, July 18, we were awarded a Gold medal, as well as Best Construction in Show and Best Future Spaces garden, so it's fair to say we were very happy indeed.Anyone who's read our previous blog posts about the RHS Tatton - Announcing 2101 and Countdown to RHS Tatton knows how hard we've worked and how ambitious our garden concept was to execute.The judging process for RHS Shows is notoriously tough, and we worked extremely hard

Categories: Awards, Business news, Cheshire, Garden design, Michael John McGarr, RHS Tatton, Show gardens, Sponsorship
July 20th 2017

Warnes McGarr & CO RHS Tatton Cactus-direct-2101

Planting list for RHS Tatton

Our RHS Tatton show garden is going absolutely amazingly and we're being asked for our planting list by so many people already that we thought we'd make it available to everyone.Be sure to tag us @warnesmcgarr if you post a photo of our Cactus-direct: 2101 garden on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram.Garden title: 2101Main sponsor: cactus-direct.co.ukGarden designer: Michael John McGarrContractor/ builder: Warnes McGarr & Co Ltd Planting listYucca FiliferaYucca RostrataYucca glorisoaTrithrinax campestrisNannorrhops ritchianaButia odorataVitis vinifera muscatEchinocactus grusonii (600mm wide specimen barrel cacti)Polaskia Chichipe (1500mm high specimen cacti)Pinus sylvestrisAlnus glutinosaBetula nigraSanguisorba "tanna"Iris germanicaSedum "purple emperor"Euphorbia characiasVerbena bonariensisCarex morrowiiPersicariaVeronicastrumPrimula vialiiHostaThalictrumGeraniumGeumHemerocallisLobelia hapsdens blueEupatorium baby JoeThymus

Categories: Awards, Business news, Cheshire, Garden design, Landscape design, Michael John McGarr, RHS Tatton, Show gardens, Sponsorship
July 20th 2017

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16:52 22 Feb 21

WM Design Studio completed a large landscaping project for us at our previous house. They managed the project from... initial design through to build completion. Throughout the process they delighted us from a design that was both sympathetic to the wider area but also blended with our new home extension. They were professional, friendly and respectful during the build and minimised the disruption associated with a large build project. My wife and I were thrilled with the end results and I would have no hesitation in recommending.read more

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13:23 07 Jan 19

WM Design Studio is a very professional company. Everyone we worked with were intelligent and professional. The design... ideas involved things we wouldn't have been able to think of ourselves and included levelling and transformation of a wasteland at the back. As it was a big project for us there were bound to be minor issues and these were all resolved in a timely and professional manner. The budget was negotiated fairly and the work done was of a high quality. It was worth paying for good workmanship and excellent knowledge in all aspects of our garden design and construction.read more

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06:11 24 Dec 18

We had no idea what potential our garden kept hidden as a secret. These guys design unlocked the potential by... designing a living space that matched exactly what we wanted and kept the theme of our house extension running through the garden to the very end. We are really pleased with the design and the pragmatism around staging the delivery to give us exactly what we want. I would recommend to anyone wanting an amazing outdoor living space!!read more

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09:48 20 Dec 18

Michael of WM design studio has been instrumental to gaining planning permission on my project. His industry knowledge... and anticipation of what was required have delivered a scheme which fulfils all the requirements of not only myself as the client but also of a very particular design review panel. Recommend without hesitation!read more

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16:38 19 Apr 18

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20:16 16 Mar 16

"Many thanks to the team--especially Rob --who did a very professional job. Everything looks fine and I am busy... planting out in the new beds.” Norman Willsonread more

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