Tag: garden border design ideas

  • Front garden make-over in Leighton Buzzard

    Front garden make-over in Leighton Buzzard

    A few months ago I was tasked with creating a front garden in Leighton Buzzard. The brief was a modern, clean and low maintenance look that would cope in the wind, as it is situated in a bit of a wind tunnel. Starting off as long grass, with poorly placed utillity covers in the middle…

  • Heatwave gardening: Tips, tricks and drought tolerant plants

    Heatwave gardening: Tips, tricks and drought tolerant plants

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    Its been quite hot, it has to be said. The aim for this post is to give you some practical ideas, and some theory behind looking after your Buckinghamshire garden during the summer heat, and what you can plant that tolerates these conditions. Lets start off with watering and a myth to bust! Watering during…

  • Summer plant spotlight: Salvia ‘Caradonna’

    Summer plant spotlight: Salvia ‘Caradonna’

    Salvia nemorosa ‘Caradonna’ is one of the best performing summer flowering plants you can have in your garden. I use it a lot in my designs, as it is such has such stunning voilet-blue flowers. Its hardy – I’ve seen them go through dry hot summers and freezing wet winters without issue. Salvia ‘Caradonna’ doesn’t…

  • Planting design in Hertfordshire

    Planting design in Hertfordshire

    Brief: Colourful wildlife friendly, and drought resistant planting design to rejuvinate a half sun, half shaded border in Hertfordshire.Stand out plants include Salvia ‘Caradonna’, Polemonium, Sambucus nigra ‘Black Lace’ and Echinacea ‘Magnus’. Pictures from its initial planting – more to be added as it fills out. For more garden border design, or if you need…

  • Garden border design in High Wycombe

    Garden border design in High Wycombe

    Here are some examples of a full garden make-over project I did recently, and is a great example of what can be achieved with professional garden border design. Some images are 3D mock-ups to give a feel for the changes proposed, and others are taken from the planting stage of the project.