Choosing Plants For Your Garden – Successful Garden & Lifestyle Design

For flower lovers, especially in a small garden, it can be difficult to achieve a continual stream of them throughout the growing season. Whilst I always teach my students how

by Rachel Mathews

Choosing Plants For Your Garden

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Natural planting style in small gardens

How to design a Piet Oudolf inspired planting plan in a small garden... Garden Rant article: https://gardenrant.com/2024/01/wild-ish-at-heart-naturalistic-planting-design.html Piet's work on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/pietoudolf/

by Rachel Mathews

Choosing Plants For Your Garden

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Planting Combinations – Appealing in August

I love the late summer months, as the tone begins to change to more russet shades – it’s like the ‘wind down’ to Autumn! However, all does not need to

by Rachel Mathews

Choosing Plants For Your Garden

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Joyful June Planting Combinations

June can be quite a tricky month for our garden planting schemes. After the first flurry of excitement, and new plant eruptions throughout Spring – March, April, May – it

by Rachel Mathews

Choosing Plants For Your Garden

Garden Planting

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Creeping Killer Critters – be careful what you plant in your garden

BEWARE OF PINE AND OAK TREES The warmer parts of Europe have been suffering from these for years in pine trees but now, sadly they are starting to appear in the

by Rachel Mathews

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Plant Selection – Marvellous in March

Flowering and foliage plants for March are considerably more plentiful than the previous months. I've gone for quite a subtle colour scheme this month. There's good reason, March tends to

by Rachel Mathews

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Plant Selection – Fabulous in February

Garden planting in February can still be quite a hard month to have the garden look good in. We are still relying heavily on those evergreen plants to save the

by Rachel Mathews

Choosing Plants For Your Garden

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Plant Selection – Jolly in January

Garden planting in January can be one of the hardest months to have the garden look good in. It's the time of year where the evergreen plants really come in

by Rachel Mathews

Choosing Plants For Your Garden

Garden Planting

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Plant Selection – Dapper in December! And your chance to get a free garden sketch design…

December can be quite a dull time for the garden, but with a few flowering evergreens, to go along side your existing summer flowering plants, you can still have a

by Rachel Mathews

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