Maximising space in a small garden is all about minimising ‘dead space’ Garden sizes have been shrinking for decades – which is a crying shame. As land for development becomes ever more expensive, more houses are squeezed into the same sized area with the casualty being the garden. Although your garden is getting smaller, the stuff we need to use
Read moreHow do you buy plants properly? Well, the best way to explain how is with a sofa. So you’ve just watched the Chelsea Flower Show all week and now you’re on a mission to do-up the garden. Gardening can be really expensive, buying plants certainly is – so how can you buy plants properly, so you don’t waste
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Does your Garden Taste Good? And why this matters. Sitting in a garden in Summer watching bees buzz and butterflies flutter is one of life’s great pleasures. Not only is it a pleasure for us to watch (unless you are melissophobic or lepidopterophobic of course!), it is also hugely beneficial to all those insects too! Bees have to work really hard
Read moreAre you a Right Plant…Wrong Place expert! We’ve all done it….we’ve planted a lovely plant in what we thought was the perfect spot, and then it all started going wrong! Delicate climbers turn into voracious triffids, the few bulbs you popped in the corner have re-appeared – everywhere, or that beautiful gorgeous flowered plant that you popped over there
Read moreBee Friendly Gardens are absolutely vital – read on to see if yours is up to the mark and what to do if it’s not! “If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more
Read moreChelsea Show Garden Want one of these? But have one of these…. In my previous post on Chelsea show gardens, we looked at why it will be nigh on impossible to recreate a show garden at home but that we could take on board bits of the gardens to create a bit more glamour at home.
Read moreGarden Ideas: Tiny Back Yards or Courtyards When space is tight, it can be tricky to make a garden or even to try to have anything that resembles a garden, sadly all too often, the courtyard consists of a couple of bins, the odd bicycle and maybe a threadbare patch of less than immaculate lawn! But it doesn’t have to be
Read moreGarden Ideas: Dull, dark & dreary gardens. Not all of us have wonderful sun-filled gardens and to be honest a bit of shade is always welcome, but what if your garden is just shaded. It can easily appear dull dark and rather dreary – so how do you go about brightening up your dreary bits. Luckily we have a few garden
Read moreGarden Ideas: Making a Garden on a tight Budget. OK, so you’ve just got your brand new house and with it comes a brand new garden….how exciting. But the view’s a bit naff and you’ve not a lot of money available to fix it. What can you do to create a garden with hardly any money to spend?
Read moreLow Maintenance Planting for Pots This is a bit of a misnomer; planting in pots will always more labour intensive than planting in soil as plants never evolved to grow in a pot! Plants were not designed to grow in a pot and so will be more demanding. There are ways to reduce the time you spend tending to your pots.
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