Blog
Planting Combinations: Deep reds, grasses and a splash of purple
Wandering round the Chelsea Flower Show provided some great inspiration for planting combinations. For a combination of deep red flowers, the slightly crooked spikes of Lysimachia atropurpurea 'Beaujolais' mixed in with the nodding heads of Aquilegia vulgaris ‘Winky...
Garden design trends: Using greenery to help a pop of colour stand out
Looking around at the garden trends for 2017, the key colour this year is the pantone colour of Greenery, whether using it as an accent colour inside or as a backdrop in the garden. Pantone describe it as, ‘Greenery is a fresh and zesty yellow-green shade that...
Autumn Colour in the garden: Stunning foliage displays and the last of the summer flowers
Travelling to see stunning displays of autumnal colour has become very popular. Particularly in the eastern part of the United States (a visit to New England in the fall is on many wish-lists). Along with southern areas of Canada. or north and eastern provinces of...
Garden Design Trends: Wildflowers and Meadows
Wildflowers look to be a continuing trend, from planting a meadow, a strip at the edge of a lawn or a few seeds scattered amongst existing borders. Whether creating meadows or wildflower planting schemes from annuals, perennials, bulbs or mixing them up. Annuals I...
Tulips
What’s not to love about a plant that comes in just about any colour you could want and provides a real zing of colour to any garden. Having walked through parks and gardens with amazing displays of tulips recently they truly signal spring has arrived and summer isn’t...
Spring Flowers
I love this time of year as everything starts re-emerging from its winter hibernation, going for a walk in the countryside and spotting the violas, anemones and primroses as they emerge in the woodlands. The bright white dots of Anemone nemorosa carpeting the woodland...
Vertical Gardening
Everywhere you look green walls and vertical gardens are springing up, given the constant competition for space this is a great way to get a garden or small piece of garden into city living. In Milan there are now a pair of skyscrapers with as many trees planted on...