Media
Up & Coming Events:
The next event will be the Listed Property Show 2014
The National Home Improvement Show
27 – 29 September 2013, Olympia, London
The Home Show packed with inspiration, expertise and advice.
The Southern Homebuilding & Renovating Show 2013
The South's biggest Self-build & Renovating Event, Sandown Park, Surrey: 29th – 30th June 2013.
http://surrey.homebuildingshow.co.uk/
Houzz Feature: Food and Community Thrive in a U.K. Allotment Garden
The Listed Property Show Olympia
Show dates 16th-17th Febuary 2013. Visit Laara for a consultation to discuss your house & garden project.
Print out and fill in this invite for Free entry to the show, Click Here.
Or visit the Free Ticket Page on the website.
http://lpoc.co.uk/property-show/tickets/
The National Home Improvement Show Olympia
The National Home Improvement Show, the UK’s leading exhibition for home improvers with Garden & Landscape show feature 28-30th September 2012. A busy show for Laara offering consultations to discuss visitors garden projects. Visit Laara at the 2013 show.
http://www.improveyourhomeshow.co.uk
The Southern Homebuilding & Renovation Show : This event is now over, Laara will be adttending in 2013.
The South's biggest Self-build & Renovation Event, Sandown Park, Surrey: 30th June-1 July 2012. A busy & successful show, Laara attended this event offering mini consultancy to discuss show visitors projects & garden design requirements.
http://www.surrey.homebuildingshow.co.uk
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Chelsea Flower Show 2012
The Cutting Edge Collection regular exhibitors at the RHS Chelsea are assisted by Laara to design and dress with planting their exhibitor stand. The Cutting Edge Collection offer luxury and unique garden buildings. A perfect addition to a beautiful garden and certainly garden buildings of distinction. www.cuttingedgegardenbuildings.com
Homes and Garden
Writen by Zia Allaway
Photography by Steven Wooster
Magazine and Newspaper Features
Utopia Kitchen & Bathroom Magazine
Read the Utopia Article (pdf)
Surrey Life (February 2010)
Design Profile
Photojournalist: Leigh Clapp
Read the Surrey Life article on Garden and Landscape Design (pdf)
Sunday Telegraph (September 2009)
Written by Elspeth Thompson
Photography: Marianne Majerus
Read the feature on Garden and Landscape Design
The London magazine: Home Garden section `East meets West`
Written by Elspeth Thompson
Photography: Marianne Majerus
English Garden Magazine (September 2009)
Written by Jackie Bennet
Photography: Steven Wooster
Download the English Garden Magazine feature of Garden Landscape Designs London Garden.
The Landscape Journal
Project Page: Loop Design, Imola , Italy
Design commissioned by Architect Francesco Coppolla
Design & Words by Laara Copley-Smith
Book Features
Lighting Gardens: Creative Solutions for Today's Gardens (Mitchell Beazley Gardening)
Written by Michele Osbourne
Photography: Steven Wooster
Secret Gardens Of London
Photography: Steven Wooster
Online Features
Archica Living: Ideas And Inspiration For your Home, Garden & Lifestyle
Urban & Out-Door Fires
http://www.achica.com/achicaliving/2012/08/outdoorfireplacetips/
An article I wrote for Period-Art.com about gardens for period properties.