As a designer, like everybody I need to freshen up my act each year. Fashions change, colours influence, new plant varieties are born, new materials emerge . . .

On the list of must see's were Tom Massey's - Yeo Valley Organic Garden, the Guangzhou Garden which won best in Show for Peter Chmiel..

Even in the garden we see picture taking transformed to the new “square” format of Instagram and ariel photography (thanks to drones) depicting gardens in ways we’ve never seen before. Elsewhere “You Tube” provides “how to do it”