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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
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
Design Show
Garden Design
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[DESIGN SHOW 29] Avoiding the biggest mistakes in garden design

https://www.successfulgardendesigner.com/ In this special 10 year anniversary episode we look back at some highlights as well as the Rachel’s top 5 tips on avoiding the...
by Rachel Mathews
Garden Design
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Avoiding garden design mistakes – Top tips from 10 years of teaching

In October 2019 SGD will be 10 years old! I can hardly believe how quickly the years have gone! In that time I’ve had the pleasure of teaching thousands of people from all...
by Rachel Mathews
Front Garden Design
Garden Design
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Front garden design makeover – Case study

Front gardens can be difficult to get right because often as not, they have to be functional, to accommodate the car and driveway or utility area for bins. Just because a...
by Rachel Mathews
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