by GillianPolley | Oct 2, 2014 | arts and crafts, arts and crafts garden design, arts and crafts house terrace, Arts and Crafts style house, Deja Vu moment, Edinburgh, focal points in the garden, garden views, Lutyens seat, Lutyens wooden bench, Plants, Polley Garden Design, rear garden patio, rear garden terrace, seats in the garden
I am sure we have all had one or two deja vu moments in our lives, but I was not expecting a design one. I had been asked to redesign the rear garden terrace of an Arts and Crafts House with a wide set of steps up to the terrace from the lawn. I felt very strongly...
by GillianPolley | Jul 23, 2014 | A Day Out, A Linear Focus, Architectural Plants, art in the garden, Colour, colour in the garden, Design, Edinburgh, evergreen plants, focal points in the garden, garden inspiration, Hedges, herbaceous border, herbaceous perennials, Houghton Hall Walled Garden, July, June, Lawns, Norfolk, Plants, Polley Garden Design, scent, sculpture in the garden, soft landscaping, summer
People ask me, “Do you enjoy visiting gardens when you are on holiday?” The answer is definitely “yes”. I can enjoy them as a visitor without the worry of designing them, or worrying how the planting is doing and in this hot weather, are the...
by GillianPolley | May 16, 2014 | back gardens, Design, Family-friendly layout, focal points in the garden, Garden Room, Grasses, Plants, Polley Garden Design, Real Homes Magazine 2013, Real Homes magazine May 2014, Stipa gigantea, summer
Follow this link to an article featuring a design by Polley Garden Design in Real Homes Magazine, May 2014, in the ‘Real Gardens’ supplement. (https://www.polleygardendesign.com/media/family-friendly-layout.html)
by GillianPolley | Apr 11, 2014 | April, art in the garden, arts and crafts, BBC, British Gardens in Time, Christopher Lloyd, Colour, colour in the garden, Design, early summer, Edinburgh, focal points in the garden, garden inspiration, Great Dixter, Hedges, herbaceous perennials, Plants, Polley Garden Design, summer
If you can find an hour to yourself over the Easter weekend and you want to put your feet up and relax and be inspired by a garden, then catch up on the BBC iPlayer with the new TV series ‘British Gardens in Time’, episode one on Great Dixter. A...
by GillianPolley | Mar 10, 2014 | 'garden tree', Architectural Plants, Cloud pruning, Design, Edinburgh, evergreen plants, focal points in the garden, Nikwaki, Plants, Polley Garden Design, shrubs, winter structure
Evergreen structure in the garden helps to hold a garden together especially in the winter – think of it as the backbone running through a garden. A few weeks ago I visited Architectural Plants in Horsham with a Sussex client with this in mind. Saw some great...
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,...
