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Read a bit about our current projects, plans and inspirations, and seasonal tips and trends

Many Hats
A garden designer is required to wear many 'hats'. You can be asked to design a new build blank canvas garden, or update/refurbish an existing garden, or create a new design for an older garden and transform the space, and all present different challenges. Looking...
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Two Small Gardens – two different styles and briefs…
The fun part in our role as garden designers is the vast variety of gardens we see, ranging from window boxes to very large gardens and everything in between. Coupled with this is the range of ideas and styles requested by clients. Our job is to interpret their...
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Trained Fruit: a garden design tool, think design as well as taste…
Imagine wandering through your own orchard, enjoying spring blossom and the buzz of bees, the laughter of children playing amongst the trees, picking ripe fruit in the autumn.  Lovely as it sounds, most of us have much smaller gardens, but you can work them hard and...
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Inside Outside
Evening Retreat from www.urbanpods.co.uk Our gardens need to work harder for us all. Covid has meant all of us are spending a lot more time in our homes and gardens, working, exercising and relaxing. Looking forward, our working lives will change and more of us will...
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Plan for Spring Colour for your Garden…
  The sound of heavy 'thuds' hitting our doormat has started as the spring bulb catalogues arrive.  2020 has been a difficult year for all of us and it is clear many people value their garden space much more than before, giving us a sense of calm and a place for...
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A Sense of Place….

by | Sep 17, 2012

In the last year I have designed gardens for houses, both old and modern.  Working with existing gardens is something I especially enjoy as there are so many elements to consider.  Existing layout, planting - both beautiful and mature and old and 'had it' and...

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The Rhythm and Circle of Nature…

by | Mar 18, 2012

This week I paid a visit to an old friend at the Botanical Gardens in Edinburgh.  I go every year in early spring and every year I am never disappointed. The old friend is a lovely specimen shrub of Daphne bholua and at this time of year it is smothered with small...

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Triumphs and Disasters…

by | Dec 20, 2011

Raised wooden beds are a great way to grow vegetables.  I am often asked by clients to add a productive area to their gardens and raised beds are what I recommend.  The soil heats up more quickly in the spring, it is easier to weed and maintain them, let alone being...

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