Garden Design Ideas
Garden Design Ideas The options: 'bolt on' garden design ideas and areas There are many different garden areas that can replace or be added on to existing ones. You can predominate and take over, like...
View ArticleShrubs and Garden Design
Shrubs and garden design There are many things for which the Victorians are accountable, and one of them is the legacy of dark, dank, unhappy dripping shrubs clustered gloomily round the front door,...
View ArticleGarden Design and the Use of Shrubs
Garden Design The use of shrubs in the garden is an essential part of the overall garden arrangement of plants; they give it the skeleton, so to speak, on which the flesh in the form of alpines, bulbs...
View ArticlePlanning a Garden Design
The Initial Design This should encompass those things that we want — within the confines of the site and the depth of our pocket. It will place and arrange flowers and shrubs, lawn and vegetable patch,...
View ArticleDesigning the Garden Around the Shape of Your Plot
The Shape of the Garden Plot It becomes necessary at some point between the ‘What have I got?’ and ‘What do I want?’ questions to get to work with tape measure, ruler, pencil and rubber and some...
View ArticleGarden Features for Improved Garden Design
Garden Features ‘What Do You Want?’ It has been suggested in the previous posts, that to make a successful garden you should take a long, hard look at what you have, look first at the whole site...
View ArticleTown House Garden Designs
(Grey, silver, blue and white) This delightful if slightly extravagant plan is designed for a garden that slopes up away from the house. It is fairly traditional and formal in its concept and offers...
View ArticleFront Garden Designs
(Bright pink, purple and strong colours) A front garden often appears to be a statement of what the owners would like the outside world to think of them. And indeed the appearance at the front of the...
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