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Welcome to the Polley Garden Design Blog

Read a bit about our current projects, plans and inspirations, and seasonal tips and trends

Many Hats
A garden designer is required to wear many 'hats'. You can be asked to design a new build blank canvas garden, or update/refurbish an existing garden, or create a new design for an older garden and transform the space, and all present different challenges. Looking...
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Two Small Gardens – two different styles and briefs…
The fun part in our role as garden designers is the vast variety of gardens we see, ranging from window boxes to very large gardens and everything in between. Coupled with this is the range of ideas and styles requested by clients. Our job is to interpret their...
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Trained Fruit: a garden design tool, think design as well as taste…
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...
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Inside Outside
Evening Retreat from www.urbanpods.co.uk Our gardens need to work harder for us all. Covid has meant all of us are spending a lot more time in our homes and gardens, working, exercising and relaxing. Looking forward, our working lives will change and more of us will...
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Plan for Spring Colour for your Garden…
  The sound of heavy 'thuds' hitting our doormat has started as the spring bulb catalogues arrive.  2020 has been a difficult year for all of us and it is clear many people value their garden space much more than before, giving us a sense of calm and a place for...
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A Plant for your garden for January…

by | Jan 28, 2014

For 8 months of the year, I would not blame you if you walked past this shrub without a second glance, it is not a showy plant, but from December to March you may well back track, as you notice a heady vanilla scent on the air.  So it is an excellent plant to consider...

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Top Garden Trends for 2014

by | Jan 21, 2014

Trends come and go, in 2014 navy blue is the new black I am told.  I guess I have always taken such predictions with a pinch of salt.  In garden terms heathers and conifers have been out of fashion for years, but I don’t dismiss any plant so easily.  So here we go for...

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In the “Red Hot Chair” this January…

by | Jan 13, 2014

There is nothing like being put on the spot - or in January's  "Red Hot Chair' by Jane Chrumka of Harmony Ridge Colours to talk about design and the colours clients love and hate.  To read the interview, see http://www.harmonyridgedesigns.co.uk/hrd-janes-blog/ dated...

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