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
Successful Garden Design Tips – Fixing a messy border
I've returned to the UK and I'm not in my mother's good books... "I can't believe I married a nurseryman and have a daughter who's a garden designer and my garden STILL looks awful!"... Oops, guess it's about time I looked at that border I said I'd fix about 2 years ago! It's because I've been so busy over at Successful Garden Design creating lots of wonderful free … [Read more...] about Successful Garden Design Tips – Fixing a messy border
Plant Selection – Magic in May
May is my favourite month of the whole year in the UK. Mostly, because it's the start of some great flowers appearing and all the signs are there that summer is on its way... May Plant Selection Here are some of my favourite planting combinations for this time of year. They can be used as an add on to April's plant selection. In fact, I encourage you to do so. The two … [Read more...] about Plant Selection – Magic in May
Plant Selection – Amazing in April
Finally, spring is actually with us (albeit for brief and teasing snatches here in the UK). It means our plant choices are getting more varied. So following on from March's subtle planting scheme that wouldn't clash with all the spring flowering bulbs, this month's garden plant selection has brighter colours but will still compliment all the bright bulb colours. This … [Read more...] about Plant Selection – Amazing in April
[DESIGN SHOW 15] Planting ideas, long & wide garden plans
To see more about the Great Garden Formula 3.0 visit: https://www.greatgardenformula.com In this episode Successful Garden Designers Rachel Mathews and Ali Conway walk you round the Cambridge Botanic Gardens to look at how to effectively repeat plant in your garden. They also show designs they have been working on for a long garden and a wide garden. You can find … [Read more...] about [DESIGN SHOW 15] Planting ideas, long & wide garden plans
[DESIGN SHOW 12] – Garden Focal Points & Plant Border Tips
In this episode garden designer Rachel Mathews discusses how to correctly position garden statues, sculptures and focal points. You can see the rest of her interview with artist and author Kitty Harri in the Andalusian sculpture garden in Otivar near Granada in Spain. Rachel will then give you her tops tips on positioning focal points from a garden designer's perspective. … [Read more...] about [DESIGN SHOW 12] – Garden Focal Points & Plant Border Tips
