GARDENS. STORIES. BECOMING.
There’s something beautiful waiting in your space.
Let’s help you see it.
BEGIN WITH YOURSELF
Choose the doorway that sounds like your space. Explore your garden reading, your lens, the seasonal calendar and the patterns you’re beginning to notice.
Begin my garden reading ↗Free to explore. Come back to your Chronicle whenever you need it.
THE GARDEN CHRONICLES
It starts with what’s already there. A forgotten corner. A favourite tree. A feeling you want to come home to. Then, little by little, we help the garden become somewhere you love to be.
Santorini airiness, soft edges and a tucked-away nook. A garden that feels unmistakably Cherry — with room to rest, create and be herself.
Explore Cherry’s garden transformation ↗Read the story behind it
Evergreen layers, little reveals and a black roll-top bath reimagined as a water feature. A three-year unfolding, built around what already has character.
Explore Shirley’s garden transformation ↗Read the story behind it
BEFORE → DESIGN VISIONA Mediterranean direction for an established garden, with intimate seating, gentle planting and another kind of beauty when the lanterns come on.
Explore Georgia’s chronicle ↗IN THEIR OWN WORDS
Explore Cherry’s garden transformation ↗This is absolutely amazing… thank you xxxxx
It’s perfect
Explore Shirley’s garden transformation ↗Thank you im soo looking forward to starting my sanctuary. I was just in the garden and thought id do sections... it’s helpful and beautiful.
WORK WITH MARIE
Send me a little about you, what you love, your inspirations and favourite holidays — along with photographs and, if you can, a video of your garden. I’ll show you what it could become and how to get there.
Let’s transform my garden ↗£85Your personal digital garden transformation
Usually back with you in 24 hours.
Please allow up to 3 days once I have your complete brief and garden photographs.
MY SANTORINI MAKEOVER
Blue walls. Soft curtains. Warm light.
Drag the line to see the change.
BEFOREMAKEOVERThe before photograph and the Santorini-inspired makeover image. A different atmosphere, built around the same corner.
THE GARDEN THAT STARTED IT ALL
I didn’t create my garden in one go. I lived with it. Moved things. Tried things. Watched what came back. Somewhere along the way, making a garden became a way of making space for myself.
Japanese calm. English softness. Reclaimed objects, water, light and those small moments that make you stop and look again.
Enter my six-year chronicle ↗MORE PAGES FROM MY OWN GARDEN
MY SANTORINI MAKEOVER
The feeling I brought home, the blue, the curtains, the fan. See the photographs and the story of bringing a holiday feeling into everyday life.
Read my Santorini Chronicle ↗
MY FRONT GARDEN
A spiritual nudge. A bank holiday. And a front garden I had been avoiding for months. Lord have mercy, this one was work.
Read the story & watch the films ↗JUNE GARDEN CHRONICLES · EVENTS & TALKS
No not Tent, I said what I said!!
Because in my mind, this was the dress rehearsal. Teaching, connecting, answering questions — and in my absolute element.
Read the post & see the event ↗
HELLO, I’M MARIE
That’s my thing. Helping people get started, see the possibilities and make a garden feel like theirs.
Zen Chronicles grew from my own Garden Chronicles: six years of making, noticing and learning. I bring that same curiosity to other people’s spaces. We look at what you have, what you love and how you want to feel when you step outside.
Autumn is a great time to start your garden transformation.
Marie Johnson
YOUR GARDEN’S NEXT CHAPTER
Your £85 transformation guide. Your own garden, reimagined around you.
marienj131@gmail.com