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What makes a great garden?

What makes for good garden design? It’s such a subjective topic…although one should not ignore strong technical elements. Consumer garden needs are always changing which means that the ‘design sands are always shifting’. Here are just a few thoughts on what is needed to make a good garden great….writes guest blogger Philip Voice. I am [...]

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How to Design a Courtyard Garden [part 3]

In this video you’ll see the design process from start to finish – lots of trade secrets given away in this one… Not got time to watch whole video & just want to see the finished design? See completed Courtyard garden design! Keep to the Brief The clients came up with lots of good ideas: [...]

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How to draw your garden site survey plan to scale [part 2]

In this video we take a look at how to turn all those measurements you took from the last video and translate them into a usable drawing. Why bother, though? I mean, really, who wants to spend any of their free time trying to get a garden survey onto a bit of paper? Answer: anyone [...]

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Garden design – Be careful of the ‘gap trap’!

There are two types of people in the world (ok there are probably more but humour me) there are those that like to give things a go and there are those that don’t. Which one are you? I definitely fall into the first category – I will always give things ago. That could be viewed [...]

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How to visualise your garden design (especially if you can’t visualise!)

I was chatting with Alison Kerr from Loving Nature’s Garden the other day about how tough it can be to visualise how the design changes you want to make in the garden will look. The sentence “I just can’t visualise” has been muttered into my little ears more times than I care to remember from my [...]

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Why Having a Garden Plan Saves Time & Money

Why would you want to design your garden, you have better things to do with your time – right? Well only you can answer that but if you want a really good garden then, I’ll answer it for you – YES, you most definitely do need to plan it! Still not convinced planning your garden [...]

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