What is it that makes a planting border look good all year round? In this video Rachel takes a look at the world famous Beth Chatto gravel garden for inspiration. Evergreens certainly play their role in the winter months but don't discount grasses and herbaceous perennials. Even though they might not be at their best in the winter, they still offer shape and form - … [Read more...] about Successful Garden Design Tips – Wonderful Winter Planting
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Successful Garden Design Tips – Planting with grasses
Add the wow factor to your garden this autumn! 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 … [Read more...] about Successful Garden Design Tips – Planting with grasses
Successful Garden Design Tips – importance of proper planning
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. Make sure you know about design before you … [Read more...] about Successful Garden Design Tips – importance of proper planning
Successful Garden Design Tips – overlooked gardens
[svp]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHWNHfbxyG8[/svp] 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 … [Read more...] about Successful Garden Design Tips – overlooked gardens
[DESIGN SHOW 21] Plant Design Secrets & Beautiful UK Gardens
Learn how to design stunning planting schemes here: https://successfulgardendesigncourses.com/plantdesign/ 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 … [Read more...] about [DESIGN SHOW 21] Plant Design Secrets & Beautiful UK Gardens
Successful Garden Design Tips – dividing space in an awkward shape garden
In this week's Successful Garden Design Tips video we look at how you can tackle an awkward shape garden that tapers with a great little designer trick - dividing the space to add the wow factor! Learn more, attend one of our FREE Fast Track Garden Design online classes... Register on this page: https://www.successfulgardendesign.com/freeclasses/ … [Read more...] about Successful Garden Design Tips – dividing space in an awkward shape garden
Successful Garden Design Tips – Line it up!
Adding the wow factor to your garden with a very simple but often overlooked designer trick... To download the free cheat sheet that comes with this video go to: https://www.successfulgardendesign.com/wow/ In this quick Successful Garden Design Tips video Rachel walks you through a simple designer trick of lining up elements within the garden that make sure your design … [Read more...] about Successful Garden Design Tips – Line it up!
[DESIGN SHOW 19] – Mediterranean garden tour & adding the WOW with colour
Download the WOW factor garden cheat sheet from: https://www.successfulgardendesign.com/wow/ Details of William and Robert's fantastic mountain Med garden can be found here: https://www.jardinalpujarra.com/the-garden/ If you'd like to volunteer to help in the garden, details of how to do that are here: … [Read more...] about [DESIGN SHOW 19] – Mediterranean garden tour & adding the WOW with colour
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 Workshop we did in Oct 2015... The reason I'm including it is because the owner, Howard built the garden, with no previous experience as a 'retirement project'! Be Honest, How Good Does Your Garden Look in the … [Read more...] about Wide Garden Design – Howard’s Garden Update
[DESIGN SHOW 18] – Level Changes, and wide garden design
In this episode designer Rachel Mathews from Successful Garden Design shows you how to tackle gardens with changes in level. She'll show you how to divide the space to make the terraces look great. If you'd like to see more about the Great Garden Formula 3.0 course, please visit: https://greatgardenformula.com/ Attend one of our FREE Fast Track Garden Design online … [Read more...] about [DESIGN SHOW 18] – Level Changes, and wide garden design