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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Gardening | Garden Design | Enjoy your garden
August 28th, 2009 No Comments
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Gardening | Garden Design | the Garden Network
April 17th, 2009 No Comments
Occassionally something happens that gets you really excited – something completely out of the blue! That something for me was having the opportunity to get involved with the Garden Network – described by Horticulture Week as “…a networking website that looks set to become the ‘Facebook’ of the Horticulture world.” The site www.garden-network.co.uk has grown [...]
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Gardening | Garden Design | Grow your own, progress
March 18th, 2009 No Comments
With all this lovely warm weather the seedlings that we planted a couple of weeks ago are germinating well and giving us the excitement of looking forward to our first crop. First up are the lettuce seeds Lollo Rossa which are doing well indoors. In a couple of weeks these will be ready to plant [...]
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Gardening | Garden Design | Plant spotlight – Cornus (dogwood) update
March 14th, 2009 No Comments
This is an update to an earlier blog about the wonder of these plants. Now is the time to prune the stems back quite hard to within 300 – 450mm of the ground. Now a top tip – bring the cut stems indoors and place them in a large vase with plenty of water. Within [...]
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Gardening | Garden Design | Snow creates blank canvas for garden
February 5th, 2009 2 Comments
We don’t get snow very often so make the most of it! Look out of your window at your garden – what do you see? A white sheet covering every last detail in the garden. Brilliant glowing white canvas hiding everything. What ever am I getting excited about? How can a garden that is invisible [...]
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