Tag: gardens buckinghamshire
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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…
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Composting: A step-by-step no-nonsense guide
Composting is simple. You make a pile of organic materials, and you wait. That’s the essence of it. Composting is a staple of sustainable gardening. In this post, I wanted to make a straightforward, easy guide to turning your garden waste into usable compost. Before I start with the steps, it is important to know…
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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…
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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.