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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 Prairie Garden Visit in Sussex

by | Oct 1, 2015

If you are down in Sussex and looking for a good garden to visit, don't hesitate to go and see Sussex Prairies Garden, we had a lovely afternoon in the beautiful garden a couple of weeks ago. You can wander in eight acres of naturalistically planted prairie garden...

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Design Ideas – inspiration or sweat?

by | Aug 11, 2015

Design ideas come from everywhere and everything, sometimes you immerse yourself in an idea, work at it and develop it, then it sits in the back of your mind and simmers slowly. I find the 'simmering time' vital as  you take the idea, push and pull it around, change...

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Geums – stalwarts of the flower border…

by | Jun 12, 2015

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 - September, giving a burst of...

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