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Reach for the sky

Some of my favourite plants both in the garden and the wild, are climbers, with clematis and wisteria counting in my top ten for any garden. There is always something to suit everyone and any taste. There are delicate pretties, refined lady’s and brooding...

My Own Garden Project

 After many years of helping other people with their gardens I finally have the opportunity to design my own space. As this is my first tweet in some time I thought a series of tweets about the start to finish of my own garden will give you a good idea of how the...

Elements

As usual at this time of year I have been neglecting my blogging duties and so here I am with a new post on ‘Shadows Gardens’ Silver medal winning ‘Elements’ garden. Sandringham flower show 2011 was the busiest show so far attracting over 22000...

Woodland walks

 Walking the dog, no matter what the season, is great for clearing the head and its where I ponder things. Most days its gardens (of course) and sometimes frivolous things but today it was fungus. I say every year that ‘I must do a fungi hunting excursion’...

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...