Arthur parkinson garden

The chicken-mad gardener has feathered his nest with beloved birdy trinkets and glimmering fairy lights. It’s clucking brilliant.

In the first of our new series, Notes from a Garden, we visit garden designer Arthur Parkinson at the Cotswold cottage he shares with his partner, interior designer James Mackie. In two years, Arthur has transformed the tiny space from the building site left behind after the cottage was extended, to a lush, abundant garden that is also a haven for wildlife. Here he talks us through the highlights in June, including his romantic border full of foxgloves and roses, his approach to planting in…

Arthur Parkinson reveals his 9 top blooms to grow for cut flowers, all of which do well in his creative container gardens. Photographs: Jason Ingram

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Arthur Parkinson, 30, from Nottingham, got his first chicken aged seven and has owned 40 throughout his life. In August, 10 of the 14 chickens he was looking after were killed in a vicious fox attack.

Arthur Parkinson, pottery gardener, Stoke-on-Trent

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For Arthur Parkinson and his family, paving has posed no obstacle to the creation of an intensely colourful but low-maintenance container garden

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Anyone who has followed the progress of Arthur Parkinson will know that he is brilliant with flowers (and with birds, particularly hens, and bees and other

If Arthur Parkinson (the 23-year-old mastermind behind the gorgeous garden at English potter Emma Bridgewater's vast Stoke-on-Trent headquarters) has a hol

Arthur Parkinson shares his advice for gardening in pots for year-round character and interest, even in the smallest of outside spaces

Arthur Parkinson on Instagram: "Amazing Cobaea this year something that is suited to being in a place that feels like a rainforest so little wonder it’s done well this summer - it will flower into the depths of winter and provide nectar for bees until they go to sleep."

To celebrate the launch of Arthur Parkinson’s Planting a Paradise: A Year of Pots and Pollinators, Arthur is joined by Kate Bradbury, author of The Bumblebee Flies Anyway, Wildlife Gardening, and How to Create a Wildlife Pond, to highlight and celebrate how every garden space, no matter its size or location, can still be buzzing, scent-filled, and […]

Arthur Parkinson on Instagram: “A flamboyance ✨🦩🌟 Tulips - palmyra (tall dark peony) , black parrot, rococo, copper image (dash of peony pink) Wallflower sunset orange…”

Arthur Parkinson on Instagram: “A Marzipan bee friendly cottage garden in Edensor, Chatsworth estate all grow from seed and plugs! An amazing riot from the roadside.”