This Garden Design Show episode features the second quick-sketch challenge. In ten minutes or less, designer Rachel Mathews will come up with as many landscape design ideas as...

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Does it take a carrot or a stick to produce a great garden?

Someone kindly(?) referred to this website as “porn for garden lovers.” As much as l laughed at that, it has made me think; are people just ogling and not actually...

by Rachel Mathews

Contemporary Gardens

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Ideas for your garden – gallery 3 Modern Contemporary Gardens

In last week’s ideas for your garden gallery we featured a selection of more traditional styles of garden with a heavy emphasis on plants. This week’s gallery, the...

by Rachel Mathews

Garden Design

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How to draw a garden site survey plan to scale [part 2]

In this garden design video tutorial we take a look at how to turn all those measurements you took from the last video and translate them into a usable drawing – the...

by Rachel Mathews

Garden Design

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Garden design – Be careful of the ‘gap trap’!

When I do garden design consults there is one sentence I hear over and over again: “Oh we just put that there because we had a gap, it doesn’t have to stay there”… What the...

by Rachel Mathews

Garden Design

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Why Having a Garden Plan Saves Time & Money

Why would you want to design your garden, you have better things to do with your time – right? Well only you can answer that but if you want a really good garden then,...

by Rachel Mathews

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[DESIGN SHOW 4] – Garden Makeover Ideas

Does it take a carrot or a stick to produce a great garden?

Ideas for your garden – gallery 3 Modern Contemporary Gardens

How to draw a garden site survey plan to scale [part 2]

Garden design – Be careful of the ‘gap trap’!

Why Having a Garden Plan Saves Time & Money