Press Coverage
Urban Glade
Gardens Illustrated, May 2011
“The entrance to the Primrose Hill family home of Charles and Seema Perez is a surprise…”
A Wild Order
Veranda, April 2011
“During his east-end London boyhood, the current owner of Temple Guiting Manor dreamed of owning two things: A Bentley car and a house in the Cotswolds …”
Down to Earth
Garden Design US, March 2011
“In a gardening-crazed nation that loves to talk, read, and gather about the national hobby, the British landscape architect Jinny Blom…”
The H&G Guide to the Leading Garden Designers of today
House & Gardens, Jan 2011
“From an initial career in psychology, Jinny Blom took a sideways step into garden design…”
Key to the Loch
Gardens Illustrated, January 2011
“There are two ways to approach Corrour Lodge, which sits at the heart of its own 57,000-acre estate…”
Quietly charismatic
Gardens Illustrated, Oct 2010
“Jean-Claude is a man of immense charm. Like his pastels he gradually casts a spell that draws one in…”
Designer Secrets
Homes & Gardens, Oct 2010
“At this year’s Jardins, Jardin show in Paris, Jinny Blom’s design broke new ground…”
A Sense of Place
Vogue USA, July 2010
“If at first sight Jinny Blom’s landscapes seem planted fair and square in the tradition of the English garden, they have a disarming…”
Golden Touch
Gardens Illustrated, June 2010
“Temple Guiting lies in the middle of the Cotswold hills, which roll from Westonbirt in the south…”
Rooms with a View
House & Garden, May 2010
“Some gardens give themselves over completely to the landscape that surrounds them; others are inward-looking and contemplative…”
Design Showcase
Gardens Illustrated, April 2010
“Jinny Blom has designed three gardens at the Chelsea Flower Show for champagne company Laurent-Perrier – winning gold…”
A Cotswold Secret
Country Life, April 2010
“Somehow, the Cotswolds still manage to keep secrets. It is something to do with the landscape, the small, steep…”
Return of the Natives
The Telegraph, 26 September 2009
“Jinny Blom. the award-winning landscape designer reckons she has planted a million pounds’ worth of native hedging in clients’…”
The Beauty of Decay
Gardens Illustrated, September 2009
“There’s something enchanting about exploring old, empty buildings, especially if you catch that rare magical moment just before…”
Design Critique: Formal Glory
Gardens Illustrated, September 2009
“What most clients want from a garden designer is a safe pair of hands, a confident swagger and a sense of humour…”
Shock of the New
The Sunday Times, 24 May 2009
“Building or reinventing your own house is a huge commitment in every sense, requiring more than a little courage…”
Your Own Garden of Eaton
The Telegraph, 16 May 2009
“A pied a terre in Eaton Square in London is the ultimate trophy property, particularly when it includes a designer-label garden…”
The Accidential Gardener
Matchbox Magazine, March 2009
“Jinny Blom didn’t always want to be an award winning garden designer. After training in theatre design, Jinny ran her own delicatessen…”
Sitting Pretty
Gardens Illustrated, March 2009
“Designer Jinny Blom has introduced a range of indoor and outdoor furniture, starting with three stools inspired by her BALI…”
The Neo-Traditionalist
Domino Magazine, March 2009
“Blom favors a period-specific mood that’s never too perfect or museum-esque. “A garden’s design should always lead…”
People: Jinny Blom
House & Garden, June 2008
“Award-winning garden designer Jinny Blom has already chosen her epitaph: ‘This illogical route was traced by the logic of passion…”
Match Point
Garden Design, May 2008
“It was sheep that first made the Cotswolds famous, and prosperous, in the 1400′s. This middle England region has been known…”
Focus ’07
Dome News, December 2007
“Offering the best in design and decoration with an emphasis on understated luxury, the importance of Focus is reflected in the high…”
A Bit of Rough
The Guardian, 10 November 2007
“When landscape designer Jinny Blom first visited her client’s East Sussex farm in 2002, the three-acre garden was beautifully manicured…”
Soft Centred
House & Garden, June 2007
“Cocooned in its own picturesque little valley, Temple Guiting Manor is a world apart from the realities of everyday life…”
Ecology, But Not As We Know It
Daily Telegraph, 26 May 2007
“Chelsea gives us a sneak preview of where garden design is heading. This year a more holistic approach and greater…”
Best in Show
Daily Express, 19 May 2007
“Jinny is one of the favourites to land the coveted Best Show Garden award for her Laurent Perrier-backed display, known as…”
Chelsea Flower Show ’07
The English Garden, May 2007
“At heart I’m a very retiring person, so exhibiting at Chelsea is excruciating, but it’s a good discipline. Last year’s design blended…”
Jinny Blom
Gardens Illustrated, May 2007
“Symbolising the unpredictable journey we all take through life, a series of pathways on various levels invite visitors to take…”
Natural Beauty
Gardens Illustrated, April 2007
“Some gardens are imposed upon their surroundings. You know the sort of thing; majestic lawns, deeply luxurious herbaceous borders…”
Designer Secrets
Homes & Gardens, April 2007
“The gardener’s owners, Emma and Bernard Shapero, asked me to create an outdoor space that would tie in with the very contemporary extension to…”
Land League
House & Garden, June 2006
“When audacious architecture takes form on a rocky outcrop near Ben Nevis, it attracts a lot of attention- even if it is off the beaten track…”
Where to Find Inspiration
Easy Living, June 2006
“This is my favourite time of the year in the garden. The sky is a pale, watered blue, the leaves a fresh, new green. All around us is an air of lovely…”
Outside Interests
House & Garden, June 2006
“Aspects of Jinny Blom’s design for a garden in Scotland (featured in ‘Land League’ in this issue) are resolutely Scottish – the use of…”
Jinny Blom
Gardens Illustrated, May 2006
“I used my sponsor Laurent Perrier as my brief. I’m half French and have a great passion for all things limestone. Laurent Perrier’s vineyards are on chalk…”
A Sense of Escape
Gardens Illustrated, May 2006
“Concrete can be a harsh and uncompromising material. You might think twice about using it extensively in the enclosed town garden of a genteel Victorian…”
The Highland Fling
House & Garden USA, February 2006
“A lodge at the heart of a deer stalking estate in the Scottish highlands, you’d expect, would be as traditional as Sherlock Holmes’s tweed cap…”
Corrour
Country Life, January 2006
“If ever there was an opportunity for a domestic building to convey the mood and drama of a wild landscape, it must be that provided by…”
The White Stuff
The Sunday Telegraph 17 July 2005
“In a part of Notting Hill where the large stucco houses are painted in ice-cream colours lies an essentially monochrome garden…”
White Magic Casts Its Spell
Independent Review, 7 July 2004
“There is, in north-west London, a £3.5m home, a glittering, white tiled property that is a taut exercise in post Bauhaus modernist architecture…”
Physicians’ Garden
The Sunday Telegraph, 8 June 2002
“Jinny Blom’s brief to create a garden for two busy young doctors in Stockwell, south London, was clear from the start. ‘They simply told me, “We don’t garden, we have three children and we entertain a lot…”
My Healing Garden
The Daily Mail, 21 May 2002
“I have called it The Healing Garden and have dedicated it in memory of my beloved grandmother, The Queen Mother, as, apart from anything else, she introduced me to the practise of homeopathy, in which she had an abiding interest…”
Prince Dedicates Garden To Queen Mother
The Daily Telegraph, 16 May 2002
“The Prince of Wales has dedicated a garden designed by him for the Chelsea Flower Show to the memory of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother…”
Run of the Mill
The Sunday Telegraph, 19 August 2001
“It is hard to imagine a better gift than an idyllic small garden, attached to an 18th-century water mill, bordered on one side by a swift, noisy brook and on the other by an orchard…”
Planting On the Peninsula
The Garden Design Journal, Spring 2000
“An eleventh hour call from the New Millennium Experience Company in January last year altered the subsequent course of our work quite unexpectedly. Our initial meeting at the Dome…”
Less Is Moore
Architects Journal, 15 April 1999
“We wanted to design a building which was as bland as possible,’ says Roger Hawkins of Hawkins/Brown. This may sound like an extreme stance in the context of the ongoing debate about whether galleries should be background or exhibit…”