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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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Add Spring Colour to Winter Planting for a Dreich Late Winter Day…
As the year moves through February and March you can have another layer of colour and interest to your winter planting with additional shrubs and early flowering spring bulbs. Ribes sanguineum is a really tough early flowering shrub (March/April) usually seen with...
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“The Holly Bears a Berry….”

by | Dec 5, 2013

The Holly is the plant linked to the Christmas season and we celebrate it in many advent carols. It is a great evergreen and bright plant for a garden border with seasonal berries.  I have also used it in a design to surround part of a sitting area to add a focus and...

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Jobs to do in the Garden in November ….

by | Nov 6, 2013

As I write this, it is raining hard, the wind is blowing strongly around our garden and autumn leaves flying everywhere.  The first frosts of the season are about to arrive, the clocks have gone back and it is time for hearty autumn and winter soups to warm you up...

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Gifts for Garden Lovers…

by | Oct 30, 2013

With Christmas on the horizon and special anniversaries and birthdays coming around, finding something special for the garden lover in your life can be daunting.  How about a sundial?  I was talking about focal points in the garden in my last blog and sundials fit the...

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