In an article today appearing in Horticulture Week, research by multimedia retailer QVC shows that an untidy garden can knock £5,000 off the value of your property. That’s a lot of hard earned money going down the drain!
Entries Tagged as 'benefit'
Garden | Garden Design | Is your garden costing you more than you think?
March 31st, 2010 1 Comment
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Gardening | Sustainable food!
March 13th, 2010 No Comments
Wouldn’t it be great though if instead of having to sow fresh seeds each year you just waited for the plant to come up and produce food for you? You are probably getting interested now – particularly if you have limited space and time. You heard right plant once and crop for ever!
Tags: benefit · Garden Organic · gardening · grow your own · Inspiration · lifestyle · low maintenance · money saving · One Pot Pledge · Plant · sustainable · value
NETWORKING! NFU MUTUAL AND THE GARDEN NETWORK JOIN FORCES
February 26th, 2010 No Comments
Rural insurer NFU Mutual is delighted to announce a new affinity partnership with the Garden Network From 1st March 2010, NFU Mutual will become the Garden Network’s exclusive insurance provider, meaning it can promote its range of insurance, pensions and investments to the Garden Network membership. Blanche Surman, Affinity Marketing Executive at NFU Mutual [...]
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Gardening | The Garden Press event 2010 – take two!
February 11th, 2010 2 Comments
Following on from my previous blog on the Garden Press event – it was good to see a number of nurseries and plant suppliers present, many of whom were showing new plants and seeds. This was great from an attendees perspective as I have come home laden with goodies to try out! Again sorry if [...]
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Gardening | Garden Design | Help – my Water Feature is frozen!
January 12th, 2010 No Comments
As the UK is plunged in to the deep freezer again this year, many of you will be suffering the effects of the cold in the garden. All those carefully planned borders and features take on an air of serene gracefulness covered in a pure blanket of white. It’s as if the pause button has [...]
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Gardening | Garden Design | Book Review | Residential Garden Design with Vectorworks Landmark by Tamsin Slatter
December 6th, 2009 5 Comments
Residential Garden Design with Vectorworks Landmark by Tamsin Slatter Following instruction manuals on how to do something is not in my nature. I am the type of person who is determined to figure it out for himself without the heavy burden of having to read instructions first! So when I was asked to review this [...]
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Gardening | Garden Design | The garden that sells the house
November 10th, 2009 No Comments
An article in todays Daily Telegraph by Maria Fitzpatrick shows how a well designed garden can add value both to your life and the value of your property. Whilst this may be obvious for a larger garden it is also true of smaller gardens. Several of the gardens that I have designed have done just exactly this for the owners.
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Gardening | Garden Design | great plants – Mahonia
November 10th, 2009 No Comments
Some plants get a reputation that is not fully deserved and perhaps Mahonia is one such plant. A member of the berberis family it has a number of redeeming features that make it welcome in the garden. It is of course popular in municipal planting schemes which may detract from its value a little, but lets look at why you should consider using this wonderful plant.
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Gardening | Garden Design | Improving your soil
November 1st, 2009 2 Comments
Autumn heralds a round of free harvests bought on by nature’s abundance. The colourful leaves that once adorned the trees in our garden are falling and with it creating a fabulous opportunity to create gardener’s black gold! In a sustainable woodland culture the leaves from the trees fall to the ground where they break down [...]
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Gardening | Garden Design | Enjoy your garden
August 28th, 2009 No Comments
Designing gardens gives me great pleasure. I have a passion about getting the most out of a space and watching the garden develop over time. This however pales into complete insignificance when the people who get most excited about the garden is the the people whose garden it is! when their friends and family also [...]
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