A creative family...

Welcome back!

{Foto: Federico Gaudino}

I am so excited to write here, after over two months (how did it happen?!?) of silence... and this time, for once, I am not going to talk about my garden adventures, nor about my latest visit to David Austen Roses, the German sourcing trip for Bestique Design or the lovely project in central London that will be completed in April... Nor the Chelsea Fringe Festival...

{foto: Federico Gaudino}

This time I am going to introduce you to a young (...well...grizzled...;P) talent, a man who left his home, friend and beautiful island to follow his design dreams (this sound familiar!!) and which creativeness cannot be constrained within one single discipline...  It is with great pleasure that I am introducing Federico Gaudino, multidisciplinary designer, winner of  several design contests and considered one of the most talentful emerging Italian creative mind. We will be soon hear more about him...in the meantime, please have a look at his new website and to some of his most popular creations (you might well have one of them at home!) and come to meet him in person at the next Milano Design Week!

{foto: Federico Gaudino}

In the meantime, I may well order a OohIssa bookend or a Magazine 3... my new office need them soo much!!!

{Magazine 3 by Federico Gaudino}

A presto!!!

Noemi

Garden Design & Summer adventures

Hello there,

thank you for stopping-by and for your lovely tweets and messages despite the blog silence!

Between new projects, pop-up gardens and other garden-adventures days have run so quickly this Summer! I now have bookings up to Spring 2016 and I am tremendously happy to share that since July I joined Anoushka Feiler's Bestique Garden and Landscape Design team (another garden design wish came true!)

In all of this, I still have not had the chance to share anything about the Pop-up Gardens I designed and realised for GROW London. When time allows there will be a post about it (was such a great fun!), but in the meantime here a little peek:

And as said, this is just part of this great Summer just passed. Hopefully I will be able to share more in the next few weeks.

Among the other adventures I also went to the inauguration of the Piet Oudolf's field at Hauser & Wirth Somerset  and tomorrow I can be find in conversation with Matthew Childs in Bergamo (thanks to Valfredda nursery and to Garden Illustrated - more info here and here). If you are in town for I Maestri del Paesaggio/The Masters of the Landscape, please come to say hello!

Once again thank you again for stopping by and sharing this wonderful jorney with me! Will try to share more when time allows. In the meantime please feel free to join me on Twitter and Facebook.

Bisous

Noemi

A peek to the RHS Hampton Court Flower Show 2014 !

WOW, What a fantastic month! 

GROW London was a success and I am now back to the drawing board with some exciting news. 

Time is going so fast these days and I will share soon the photos of my latest Pop-Up garden, 

But in the meantime, here a peek to the RHS Hampton Court Flower Show 2014, which will officially open tomorrow to the public. Enjoy and feel free to Pin! :)

{The Quiet Mark by John Lewis}

{Halo by Stuart Towner}

{Green is the colour by Scarth & Haller}

{Al Fresco by KLC School peer Doc Peter Reader}

{The World Vision Garden by John Warland}

{The Bounce Back Foundation Garden: Untying the Knot}

{Hedgehog Street by Tracy Foster}

{Legacy Garden - Macmillan Cancer Support by Green Hedge}

{Lust Concept Garden by Rachel Parker Soden, fantastic KLC School peer}

{Baccus Garden by Wardrop Design}

{Sloth Concept Garden}

{A Space to Connect and Grow by Cairns & Antonelli}

{A part of the 'Hedgehog Street' Garden by Tracy Foster}

Please note that this photos have been taken on the latest day of build and before press day.

Mine was a very quick visit, but I think to have already spotted 3 recurring trends in this year gardens:

1) Mediterranean Feeling

2) Upcycled

3) Enviromentally-Friendly

Do you agree with me? Which one is your favourite?

Bisous, 

Noemi

See you at GROW!

Less then 24 hours to one of the most exciting days of the year!

GROW London, the new contemporary garden fair unique in its genre 

will open its door tomorrow and I feel over the moon. 

There will be some of the most exquisite outdoor pieces, fantastic talks, unique plants and so much more!!!

I will be there with a surprising pop-up garden and I look forward to seeing you there!

Noemi

Wordless Wednesdays: A quick peek to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show!

Hello there and welcome back!

{Hope on the Horizon by Matthew Keightley - Silver Gilt and People's ChoiceAward}

Time is running sooo fast and I cannot believe that May is gone already! This is definitivelly the busiest time of the year for us and between the Chelsea Fringe, The RHS Chelsea Flower Show, the new collaboration with GROW London and the ongoing design projects, the hours of the day (and of the night!) are never enought!  I wish I could bring you all in my pockets to share these exciting days with you!

{Hosting for Luciano Giubbilei's Laurent-Perrier Garden
 Gold Medal and Best in Show}

Due to previous work commitments, this year I couldn't plant in Main Avenue at Chelsea, but I was lucky enough to host for Luciano Giubbilei (Gold Medal & Best In Show) and the super Cleve West (Gold Medal). Here a little peek of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2014. 

More posts and photos to come soon! 

{Luciano Giubbilei's Laurent-Perrier Garden - Digitalis lutea, Lupinus 'Chandelier',
Gladiolus tristis, Milium effusum 'Aureum', Euphorbia sp.,
 Orlaya grandiflora - Gold Medal and Best in Show }

{Tommaso Del Buono & Paul Gazerwits's Telegraph Garden - Gold Medal }

{Tommaso Del Buono & Paul Gazerwits's Telegraph Garden - Gold Medal}

{A Garden for First Touch at St. George by Patrick Collins- Silver Gilt}

{A Garden for First Touch at St. George by Patrick Collins- Silver Gilt}

Thank you for stopping by! I hope to see you next week!

P.S.

Please feel free to repin from here or from my Pinterest board.  

Chesea Fringe lands to Italy! - Il Chesea Fringe atterra in Italia!!!

The Chesea Fringe Alternative Garden Festival starts today and on May 24th will land in Turin with the 'Little Fringers Grow' of Rosanna Castrini Landscape !!! 

Come back soon for more news and get in touch at info@mercurellisgardendesign.com for more info on how to join the Chelsea Fringe! 

Tulips galore at Great Dixter!

Welcome back at Mercurelli's :)

As May approach things are hotting up at fast pace. The iconic RHS Chelsea Flower Show and the exhuberant Chelsea Fringe Festival are around the corner, and I just started a new collaboration with GROW London, which I am very enthusiast about and of which I will tell more in another post. One of the two Twickenham gardens has been completed on perfect schedule and the one in Teddington is on its way.

{Tulips display in the porch}

But you know, a Garden Designer is never arrived and even in a such busy time of the year it is essential to find time for planning, brainstorming and learning. And when your 'learning day' is a day a Great Dixter, side by side with Fergus Garrett... well...there isn't much more you can ask for!

Once there I could not avoid capturing all this colour feast for you!

{Tulip Pots display in the Wall Garden}

{A romantic border in the Wall Garden}

{Myosotis sp, Tulipa, Lunaria annua}

{One of the most well-know Design principles: repetition is the key!}

{Vibrant pots display in front of the Porch}

{Yellow lily-flowered Tulips (Possibly Tulipa 'West Point'), and Blue Myosotis}

{A riot of colours in the Vegetable Garden}

{Scent and vibrant colours for the Orchard Garden}

{Candid Tulipa, Lunaria annua var. albiflora and acid-green Bupleurum in the Long Border}

{View of the Lutyens' circular steps from the Orchard} 

{Tulipa and Myosotis gain, definitively a great combination!}

{A last shot from the Lutyens' Circular Steps before come back home!}

I will be at Great Dixter again this Monday, for a Study Day on Succession Planting, part of the 'KLC Great Dixter Award for Horticulture Award' prize. Please feel free to join me me on Twitter for live photos! 

I wish you a lovely and bright new week, 

Noemi

P.S. Please feel free to pin this fantastic Tulip bonanza! These and many other photos from Great Dixter can be also found on this dedicated Pinterest board.

Happy Easter 2014!!!

Wishing you a Fantastic Easter!

{Photo: Great Dixter Long Border}

May the joy of the Resurrection fills your days, 

your homes and your workplaces! 

(P.S. And Happy BBQs with the Family!)

Noemi

Wordless Friday: Sardinian colours, textures and inspirations!

I hope you will forgive me if, for once, I move the Wordless day post to Friday... 

Since the last post my 'Designer-life' has been a succession of drawings, visits, meetings, talks... 

So much work folks, but soo rewarding!

In all of this, I somehow managed to spend few days in Sardinia, from where my inspiration often come from. These time I did not observe costal landscapes and turquoise waters, but the suburb wildnerness that frame Cagliari, the chief town. I hope you will enjoy its colours and textures as much as I did!

(P.S. Please feel free to Pin and to Leave a Comment! I love reading them!)

{Rusted, Old Gate. A new one woudn't be as charming!}

{An Opuntia and an Asteracea - A Soft/Thorny suggestive combination}

{Wild Cerinthe major - YES, in Sardinia they are already out and YELLOW!}

{An old Fiat 500, an Opuntia and local reed Fence. That's Barraccamanna!}

{One of the many wild cenosis. Simply perfect!}

{A wild/suburb Landscape, few minutes away from Cagliari's Airport}

{Rusted Gate Lock of a vacant plot: which (botanical) secrets will it hide?}

Thanks for stopping by!

I look forward hearing from you!

Noemi