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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

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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Top Garden Trends for 2016

by | Jan 18, 2016

Fun, Chat, Eat and Relax are the key words for 2016 in the garden.   Our desire for a healthy lifestyle continues from last year and growing your own vegetables, fruit and herbs in our gardens remains popular.  From mixing it up and growing vegetables and flowers...

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Festive Winter Containers

by | Dec 18, 2015

Christmas is here, and people are busy decorating their christmas trees and decking their halls, but don't forget your garden.  A festive styled plant container in a position near a door or viewed from a window really cheers up a garden. At plant nurseries and garden...

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The Gardener’s Friend…

by | Nov 19, 2015

About 3 weeks ago at night we came across a hedgehog in our garden. I thought we might have some visitors as our garden is hedgehog friendly, so it was great to see it in person.  'Him outdoors' got inspired and after checking out several 'How to make a Hedgehog Home'...

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