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Category Archives: Planting
Chelsea Flower Show: Some Self-Seeding Inspiration
It’s been a while since my last post – there’s been a lot going on, but simply not enough time to compose some coherent words here (you can follow some of our current projects on our Facebook page). One of … Continue reading
Escape To Cornwall
Summer is when most people wake up to what’s going on in their garden, and hence it can be a busy time for garden designers. However, we did manage to escape for a few days to Cornwall. With its sheltered … Continue reading
Posted in Arboriculture, Architecture, Garden Design, Garden Maintenance, Garden Sculpture, Landscape Design, Planting, Wild flowers
Tagged cornwall, garden design, rumbold ayers
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Wildlife Gardening
Gardens, like so many things these days, are subject to changing fashions. Recently, as a garden designer, I’ve seen a groundswell of interest in gardening for wildlife – insects, small mammals, amphibians and of course birds. The key to attracting … Continue reading
Posted in Garden Design, Landscape Design, Planting
Tagged Bees, insect hotel, native planting, persicaria, wildlife corridoor, wildlife garden
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Is it too late to plant herbaceous perennials?
Last spring Judy and I were invited to visit a newly created garden in Warwickshire that had been planted up the previous autumn, and we were shocked to see many apparently hardy plants had been killed by last winter’s frosts. … Continue reading
Posted in Garden Design, Landscape Design, Planting
Tagged autumn planting, frost damage, herbaceous planting
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Summer Planting
Ok, so I’ve been neglecting this blog for a couple of weeks…. well sometimes I have to do some real work. I guess most people consider summer to be June, July and August, so I’ve left it a bit late to … Continue reading
Posted in Garden Design, Landscape Design, Planting
Tagged cephalaria gigantea, echinacea purpurea, euphorbia cornigera, exbury, garden hampshire, helenium, lilium brunello, summer border, summer planting
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Spring Planting
It feels like spring is here, so it’s high time I got back to writing something about garden design, rather than assorted bees and beetles. This is a quite superb scene I snapped at Waterperry Gardens in Oxfordshire last year. … Continue reading
Posted in Garden Design, Landscape Design, Planting
Tagged Berberis thunbergii, Cynara cardunculus, Erysimum Bowles Mauve, Kerria japonica, spring border, Spring Planting, Tulipa Bleu Aimable, Waterperry Gardens
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“My Garden School” goes Live!
This may be the news you’ve been waiting for……. John Brookes MBE, who is widely considered to be one of the most influential garden designers of the 20th Century, is just one of the renown experts who have teamed up … Continue reading
Posted in Garden Design, Garden Maintenance, Landscape Design, Planting
Tagged Duncan Heather, John Brookes, Oxford College of Garden Design
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Planting for Winter Interest
The recent early snow is perhaps a good cue to think about the garden’s appearance in winter. It is a common mistake to asume that, once the first frosts come, visual interest in the garden is over until next spring. … Continue reading
Autumn Planting
I guess its about time I wrote something about gardening, so here goes. With autumn colours spreading through woodlands, and some trees and shrubs already loosing their leaves, you might be forgiven for thinking there’s not much interest left in … Continue reading
Posted in Garden Design, Landscape Design, Planting
Tagged aster, Autumn, Knoll Gardens, miscanthus, persicaria, rudbeckia, sedum
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