by GillianPolley | Feb 28, 2015 | 'Home Ground: Sanctuary in the City", 2015, Acer, Dan Pearson, Design, designing your own garden, driveway, Edinburgh, February, front garden, garden transformation, March, Polley Garden Design
After spending 12 years designing client’s gardens, I am finally designing my own front garden and driveway and I get to please myself. Now this is a great feeling, but it is also slightly scary. Garden designers find it notoriously difficult to design their...
by GillianPolley | Feb 21, 2014 | Colour, colour in the garden, Cornus, Edinburgh, February, focal points in the garden, Plants, Polley Garden Design, Spring, winter colour
Is your garden looking rather drab and tired today at the end of winter? Then add some colour with Cornus or dogwoods, a varied and good value group of plants. They are tough useful shrubs and trees, many shrubs with strongly coloured stems in coral red, orange,...
by GillianPolley | Feb 5, 2014 | bulbs, Cambo House, Cambo House Gardens, Design, February, Galanthus, Plants, Polley Garden Design, Scottish Snowdrop Festival 2014, Snowdrops, Spring, winter colour, winter scent in the garden
If you want confirmation that spring is on the far horizon, seeing snowdrops in flower is a good sign. To see a mass of snowdrops on a roadside bank or in a woodland is a magical moment. To find out where you can see them near where you live, go to the website below...
by GillianPolley | Feb 15, 2013 | Acer griseum, berries, bulbs, clematis, cyclamen, Edinburgh, February, garden design, Hamamelis, holly, Plants, scent, shrubs, Spring, trees, Viburnums, winter colour
I have been working this week on a planting plan for a driveway and front garden. The client has asked for evergreen structure with year round interest and colour and I have used a number of the shrubs and plants I have written about, starting with my first...
by GillianPolley | Feb 1, 2013 | bulbs, clematis, February, herbaceous perennials, Jobs to do in the garden, Plants, shrubs, Snowdrops, trees, Uncategorized, winter
Keep clearing debris from plant borders. Keep an eye out for slugs and protect new shoots on herbaceous plants. Cut down old foliage on ornamental grasses which have provided winter interest before new shoots emerge. As long as the ground is not frozen or...
