by GillianPolley | Jul 6, 2016 | 2016, arts and crafts garden design, arts and crafts house terrace, Arts and Crafts style house, back gardens, colour in the garden, Copper Mango Photography, DeLisle Tree Solutions, Design, driveway, focal points in the garden, front garden, garden inspiration, Green house, herbaceous perennials, Home & Interiors Scotland, Homes & Interiors, July, June, landscaping works, Lawns, long flowering period, Lutyens seat, Lutyens wooden bench, Obelisks, Plantscapes Landscaping, Polley Garden Design, sandstone paving, seats in the garden, Sir Robert Lorimer, summer, summer flowering plants
We’re delighted to feature in the July/August 2016 edition of Homes & Interiors Scotland magazine. “Growing out of the Past” tells the story of a garden restoration for a house and garden designed and built in 1914 by Sir Robert Lorimer, one of...
by GillianPolley | Jun 12, 2015 | 2015, August, back gardens, bees, bees and insects, Chelsea Flower Show, Colour, colour in the garden, Design, early summer, Edinburgh, evergreen plants, front garden, Geum 'Cosmopolitan', Geum 'Lemon Drops', Geum 'Prinses Juliana', Geum 'Totally Tangerine', Geums, Geums - stalwarts of the flower border, herbaceous perennials, long flowering period, low maintenance plants, Plants, Polley Garden Design, stalwart garden plants, summer, summer flowering plants
Geums have been one of the talked about plants at Chelsea in the last few years – the orange coloured ‘Prinses Juliana’ (height 60cm, spread 50cm), flowers May – July, and ‘Totally Tangerine’ (height 75cm, spread 50cm) flowers April...
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 | Aug 21, 2013 | August, autumn colour, Cambo House Gardens, Colour, Edinburgh, Grasses, herbaceous perennials, insect habitat, insects, Plants, Polley Garden Design, Potager, Prairie planting, Snowdrops, Society of Garden Designers, St Andrews, summer, Vegetable growing
If you are looking for a dose of garden inspiration, then pay a visit to Cambo House Gardens at Kingsbarns, St Andrews in the next month or so. I was there yesterday with a group of garden designers from the Society of Garden Designers and we were had a great visit...
