Tag: planting design
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Save our wildlife: Choosing plants for pollinators this Summer
We hear the plight of the bee on a regular basis, but it isn’t just bee’s that pollinate our flowers, fruit and veg crops. Hoverflies, Moths, Beetles, Butterflies and even Wasps are essential for pollination in the UK. Almost all flowering plants are in some way attractive to pollinators, as if they weren’t, the plants…
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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…
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Hire an expert: Enhance your planting
With the cold winter and then extremely wet spring we have had, it isn’t at all surprising that plants are suffering in borders. Every garden I have visited over the last few months has lost plants – some that are usually hardy – to the bad weather. So now the growing season is in full…
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Hire an expert: Save money, have a better garden
It is all too frequently that I visit peoples gardens and hear that a good gardener is hard to find. As you have found me its likely you have found me via one of the professional bodies I belong too, such as the Gardeners Guild or Chartered Institute of Horticulture. I joined these professional associations…
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Heatwave gardening: Tips, tricks and drought tolerant plants
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…
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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…