Back again

Hello I am sorry its been awhile but after lots of hiccups some rethinking and a little relaxation Im back. It happens to us all we are forced at times to do a little re-evaluation of ones business and personal life. Well I have come out of the other side of one of...

Colour blind design

After writing my last post on colour in planting schemes it seemed a natural progression to write advice on how to design for someone who is colour blind. If you are colour blind yourself then you will already know from experience what looks good and what...

Colour and planting schemes

Colour is an important aspect of any planting scheme, when planning your garden plant foliage and flower colour will often be determined by the style of your garden. Styles like the cottage garden will imply a multi-coloured scheme but what may seem like haphazard...

Water wise

As I write this the garden is looking parched with the long run of dry sunny days stretching into weeks we may be enjoying the summer sun but the plants most certainly are not. Vegetable plants in particular suffer at the mercy of the heat; they need water to swell...

Papaver Perfection

This year I have had such a beautiful and vide variety of colourful self seeded Papaver or Poppy’s that I thought I would give them the coverage they deserved. Definition of Poppy from the Oxford english dictionary: a herbaceous plant with showy flowers, milky...