Garden Design

Successful Garden Design Tips – Planting with grasses

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In this week’s Successful Garden Design quick tips video we look at different ways to plant grasses effectively in the garden…

Grouping grasses coming up in drifts throughout the other plants is a great way to incorporate grasses into the garden.

Planting grasses this way helps highlight the striking colours of the autumn-flowering, purple Asters, and the burgundy coloured Sedum, providing contrast and softness with texture.

You can also plant in straight rows if your garden has lots of linear elements like hedges and paths. The grasses again act as highlighters to the elements that are already in the garden.

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Successful Garden Design Tips – importance of proper planning

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They say never work for friends or family… here’s a garden that DIDN’T go to plan…

In the video you will see how important it is to:

Plan properly
Stick to the plan!

It’s SO easy to get carried away when landscaping your garden and not really consider how everything has a knock on effect with everything else.

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Successful Garden Design Tips – overlooked gardens

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This week we take a look at how to lessen the impact of being overlooked by lots of buildings and creating a lovely garden!

A quiet peaceful space can still be created in a very overlooked garden. The height of the trees helps take they eyes away from the buildings.

You don’t have to use palm trees to create this effect. Any tree that is suitable for your size and location will also work. Birch trees (Betula) and Sorbus aria Lutescens are great choices for small space gardens.

If your garden is very small and can’t accommodate a tree, the non-invasive bamboos like the black stemmed variety can also provide plenty of vertical interest.

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[DESIGN SHOW 21] Plant Design Secrets & Beautiful UK Gardens

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In this episode Rachel visits the Beth Chatto Garden near Colchester in Essex and looks at what makes the famous planting schemes work so well.

She also visits a private garden close by to Beth’s garden that is sometimes open to the public at Little Bentley Hall.

And last but by no means least she visits the Waterperry Garden in Oxfordshire and show how to successfully plant in groups.

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Successful Garden Design Tips 11 – Planting scheme secrets!

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In this quick tips video Rachel walks you through a very simple trick to creating stunning planting schemes when she visits the Waterperry gardens in Oxfordshire.

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