You've read the books. You've gone online and researched which plants to put in your garden. You may have even colour themed your planting border and put the design on paper... But after all that effort and time spent researching, planning, purchasing, placing and planting, your garden still doesn't look as good as you hoped. Why? Planting Border Design Failure Reason … [Read more...] about Planting Border Design Cheat – how to instantly fix a ‘messy’ planting scheme
Garden Planting
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 they can be... Plant Design Principles When designing any planting scheme it's important to consider the following: Garden growing conditions eg. sun, shade, rainfall, soil type, temperatures Heights … [Read more...] about Successful Garden Design Tips – Evergreen Plants – Winter Wonders
[DESIGN SHOW 24] Sensational Autumn & Winter Border Planting Tips
In this Successful Garden Design Show episode... Rachel visits Marks Hall Garden and Arboretum in Essex for inspiration on how to create modern and natural planting schemes with autumn and winter interest... We look at how the addition of grasses and key plants into a border can prolong the length of time the garden looks good. The purple flowered Asters and … [Read more...] about [DESIGN SHOW 24] Sensational Autumn & Winter Border Planting Tips
[DESIGN SHOW 22] Creating glorious herbaceous flower borders
In this episode Rachel visits some wonderful gardens in the south of England and takes a look at what makes their herbaceous flower borders great... as well as not so great! This lovely herbaceous border is one of the first parts of the West Dean Gardens. It looks great mid to late summer. Gardens featured are Waterperry in Oxfordshire and West Dean gardens in … [Read more...] about [DESIGN SHOW 22] Creating glorious herbaceous flower borders
Successful Garden Design Tips – getting planting numbers correct
Learn more about garden design, attend one of Rachel's FREE online garden design classes - register here: https://www.successfulgardendesign.com/freeclasses/ In this week's Successful Garden Design tips video Rachel walks you through how to get the planting quantities right and how to successfully plant in groups. She'll also show you a little trick for making sure your … [Read more...] about Successful Garden Design Tips – getting planting numbers correct
