by admin | Jul 7, 2021 | 'garden tree', 2021, apples, architectural structure, back gardens, bare root fruit trees, bees, bees and insects, berries, biodiversity, cooking apples, Copper Mango Photography, Design, designing your own garden, fences, focal points in the garden, fruit cordons, fruit trees, garden design, garden relaxation, Gardeners' World Magazine, habitat for wildlife, insect habitat, July, pears, Plants, plums, Potager, Potager gardens, Raised wooden beds, RHS Garden Hyde Hall, Scotland's Gardens Scheme, shapes, soft fruit, spring blossom, spring colour, Stepover fruit hedge, Stepover fruit trees, trained fruit as screens, trained fruit trees on walls, Trained fruit: think design as well as taste, trees, winter structure
Imagine wandering through your own orchard, enjoying spring blossom and the buzz of bees, the laughter of children playing amongst the trees, picking ripe fruit in the autumn. Lovely as it sounds, most of us have much smaller gardens, but you can work them hard and...
by GillianPolley | Aug 30, 2013 | autumn colour, Bailey, Cambo House Gardens, Camellia, containers, dogs, Edinburgh, Gardeners' World Magazine, herbaceous perennials, Jobs to do in the garden, Lawns, Nigel Gardeners' World TV, Polley Garden Design, shrubs, St Andrews, Vegetable growing
I love autumn – the “season of mist and mellow fruitfulness”, and the crisp cool mornings. But summer is still having its final fling in Edinburgh. We are busy harvesting carrots, beetroot and salad crops, and our neighbours have a surfeit of runner...
by GillianPolley | Jan 8, 2013 | bulbs, Eden Project, Gardeners' World Magazine, herbaceous perennials, Obelisks, Ponds, Raised wooden beds, sculpture in the garden, Stipa gigantea, trees, Uncategorized, Vegetable growing, Viburnums
If you are thinking about growing plants from seed, check out the catalogues and order your seeds, so you have all you need ahead of sowing time. Continue to clear weeds and debris from plant borders and spread last years compost over plant borders to protect and feed...
by GillianPolley | Dec 20, 2011 | Eden Project, garden design, Gardeners' World Magazine, Inside Out Chef, Raised wooden beds, Vegetable growing
Raised wooden beds are a great way to grow vegetables. I am often asked by clients to add a productive area to their gardens and raised beds are what I recommend. The soil heats up more quickly in the spring, it is easier to weed and maintain them, let alone being...
