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Rachel Mathews

Rachel Mathews

Professional international garden designer for over 25 years. My mission is to de-mystify garden design and make it easy for people to successfully design their own garden - without needing to spend a fortune!

Garden Design
Garden Planting
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Tree planting that makes a difference & solves a Christmas present dilemma

This is a slight departure from my normal garden design articles. It’s certainly still relevant as tree planting is a very important part of any good garden...
by Rachel Mathews
Garden Planting
Successful Garden Design Tips Videos
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Successful Garden Design Tips – Evergreen Plants – Winter Wonders

Evergreen planting tips for your garden  Evergreen plants can often be overlooked and underused. In this week’s quick tips video Rachel demonstrates just how amazing...
by Rachel Mathews
Garden Lighting
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Garden lighting tips – luscious landscape lighting

Landscape lighting is a real art form. I will need to immediately tell you that is it not my main area of expertise. When I have a big scheme to do, I always call in a...
by Rachel Mathews
Garden Design
HALL OF FAME - SGD student gardens!
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Wide Garden Design – Howard’s Garden Update

Normally, the SGD Student Hall of Fame is for gardens designed by you – on this occasion I’m slightly breaking it as I designed this one, live, in the Wide Garden...
by Rachel Mathews
Garden Design
HALL OF FAME - SGD student gardens!
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DIY Garden Design + a Designer

A lot of people want the joy and satisfaction of designing their own garden but are scared they are going to muck it up and waste their money! As you probably already know, I...
by Rachel Mathews
Garden Design
HALL OF FAME - SGD student gardens!
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Modern, awkward shape garden design – Wolfgang’s garden

I’m very pleased to be featuring Wolfgang’s garden in this week’s SGD Student Hall of Fame. Wolfgang lives in Germany and this is the garden he had to...
by Rachel Mathews
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