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The Secret Garden and Inspiration for Creating Your Own
The latest film of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden has just been released, a story mainly about the healing properties of a garden and gardening and how being outside can help both physical and mental health. Creating Your Own Something that many people...
Garden Design: Using the verticals
In any space but particular small ones, whether its a balcony, a front garden or a courtyard verticals are perfect for not only maximising the amount of space for adding interest and plants but to also create the illusion that it’s a bigger area than it really is. A...
Outdoor Living: Seating areas, outside kitchens and offices
I’ve been thinking about outdoor living recently for two reasons, last week I spent time drooling over the gardens on display at The Virtual Chelsea Flower Show and we are all going to be spending more time at home this year, the ultimate staycation. Whether this is...
Garden Design Trends: Home Hub
Pinterest were predicting home hub to be another key trend for 2020 and with more people working from home it is still incredibly popular. Adding home offices, lots more technology, particularly smart homes and home theatre but also garden rooms, lots of greenery...
Garden Design Trends: Finding Balance
I love looking at my garden in winter, I can see the overall structure, all the bare bones of it and think about what’s missing or not working. While the evenings are still dark and the weather is often grey and uninspiring it’s the perfect time to start planning any...
Planning and Planting a Cutting Garden: Perennials
There is an extra feeling of enjoyment that comes from a bunch of flowers that you have grown and cut from your own plot, above and beyond bringing some home from the shops. Many perennials make ideal cutting flowers, whether through a dedicated cutting patch at the...
October Flowers in the Garden
Come October I love seeing the leaves on the trees turning from green through to vibrant shades of oranges and reds, a colour palette that can easily be replicated in the borders to mirror the trees. The yellows of the daisy like Rudbeckia fulgida var....
Planning and Planting up a Cutting Garden: Bulbs
As all the bulbs are starting to appear in the garden centres and nurseries ready for planting this autumn along with all the seed catalogues, now is the perfect time to start planning a cutting garden. Whether considering giving over an area of the garden to it or...
Planting Design: Planting Plans and Plant Supply
Sometimes it is only the soft landscaping elements of the garden that need attention, the overall shape of the garden work or the hard landscaping elements for example, terrace, walls, steps or pergolas still work. However some of the plants have become overgrown or...
Garden Consultation
Sometimes we have lots of ideas buzzing round our heads but aren’t too sure how to pull them all together or which ones would work and which ones should be discarded. Or there could be an area in the garden where nothing seems to grow or there is an unsightly view to...
Having your garden designed: What’s involved?
So what happens when you want help to make the most of their outdoor space, perhaps to create a haven from the working day, a great space for the kids to play or tap into the current trends with an outdoor kitchen? I thought I would walk through what you can expect...
Chelsea Flower Show: Oranges and Purples
Although the key colour trend at Chelsea this year was green, it was closely followed by oranges and blues/purples with many of the perennial favourites in evidence. Salvia nemorosa ‘Caradonna’ with its purple stems and purple-blue flowers, the pompoms of alliums,...