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Outdoor Living: Seating areas, outside kitchens and offices
I’ve been thinking about outdoor living recently for two reasons, last week I spent time drooling over the gardens on display at The Virtual Chelsea Flower Show and we are all going to be spending more time at home this year, the ultimate staycation. Whether this is...
Garden Trends in 2020: Home Hub
Pinterest are predicting home hub to be another key trend for 2020, adding home offices, lots more technology, particularly smart homes and home theatre but also garden rooms, lots of greenery inside and out from green walls, lots of planting from feature shrubs, to...
Garden Trends in 2020: Finding Balance
I love looking at my garden in winter, I can see the overall structure, all the bare bones of it and think about what’s missing or not working. While the evenings are still dark and the weather is often grey and uninspiring it’s the perfect time to start planning any...
Christmas 2019 Trends: Snowscape
Snowscape is similar to the Scandinavian theme which has been popular in recent years with whites and natural wood colours, it is described as white with subtle shimmers and hints of green. The brilliant white of the bare-leaved branches of birch and one of my...
Christmas 2019 Trends: Campfire
Campfire is all about the great outdoors, sitting outside around a fire under the star, camping adventures and generally enjoying nature. The colours chosen to go with this theme are rusty colours in shades of amber, copper and the colour of the soil, think foxes,...
Christmas Trends: Sanctuary
The sanctuary theme is seen as a calming, a place to retreat from the frenzy of Christmas shopping and preparations, predominantly in shades of blush and rose gold. To me a garden is the perfect place to retreat even on a cold winter’s day, a chance to stop and inhale...
Christmas 2019 Trends: Garden Retreat
Every year John Lewis come up with themes based on the latest trends around which to style your house for Christmas, many of which could be equally applied to outside and a chance to make the most of your garden in winter. This year the seven themes are Campfire,...
Planning and Planting a Cutting Garden: Perennials
There is an extra feeling of enjoyment that comes from a bunch of flowers that you have grown and cut from your own plot, above and beyond bringing some home from the shops. Many perennials make ideal cutting flowers, whether through a dedicated cutting patch at the...
October Flowers in the Garden
Come October I love seeing the leaves on the trees turning from green through to vibrant shades of oranges and reds, a colour palette that can easily be replicated in the borders to mirror the trees. The yellows of the daisy like Rudbeckia fulgida var....
Planning and Planting up a Cutting Garden: Bulbs
As all the bulbs are starting to appear in the garden centres and nurseries ready for planting this autumn along with all the seed catalogues, now is the perfect time to start planning a cutting garden. Whether considering giving over an area of the garden to it or...
Planting Design: Planting Plans and Plant Supply
Sometimes it is only the soft landscaping elements of the garden that need attention, the overall shape of the garden work or the hard landscaping elements for example, terrace, walls, steps or pergolas still work. However some of the plants have become overgrown or...
Garden Consultation
Sometimes we have lots of ideas buzzing round our heads but aren’t too sure how to pull them all together or which ones would work and which ones should be discarded. Or there could be an area in the garden where nothing seems to grow or there is an unsightly view to...