by GillianPolley | Feb 17, 2017 | 1930's house, 2017, A Linear Focus, Acer, Acers, arts and crafts, arts and crafts garden design, Arts and Crafts style house, box balls, Colour, Design, design balance, drainage, driveway, Edinburgh, evergreen plants, front garden, front garden/driveways, garden inspiration, garden transformation, Grasses, Hellebores, herbaceous perennials, Japanese gardens, low maintenance plants, O-Karikomi, outdoor furniture, Plants, Polley Garden Design, Pulmonarias, scent, shrubs, Sir Robert Lorimer, SUDS, winter colour, winter scent in the garden, winter structure
Designing front gardens and driveways is often challenging. Never mind the practicalities of a car parking space or manoeuvring space for the car or cars (it often takes more space then you think) and access routes from A to B and Sustainable Urban Drainage issues...
by GillianPolley | Sep 16, 2016 | 2016, apples, back gardens, bare root fruit trees, bees and insects, cooking apples, Design, designing your own garden, fruit trees, pears, plums, Polley Garden Design, Potager, Potager gardens, Raised beds dimensions, september, soft fruit, soft landscaping, Stepover fruit trees, Vegetable growing
Potager gardens originated in 16th Century France arising from kitchen gardens of monasteries, growing vegetables, fruit, flowers and herbs together in symmetrical geometrical garden beds planted in groups rather then rows. Plants are chosen for both their good looks...
by GillianPolley | Aug 11, 2015 | 2015, Acer, Acers, Architectural Plants, Buxus, Design, evergreen plants, front garden, garden inspiration, garden transformation, Japanese gardens, O-Karikomi, O-Karikomi gardening technique, Plants, Polley Garden Design, shrubs, trees, winter structure
Design ideas come from everywhere and everything, sometimes you immerse yourself in an idea, work at it and develop it, then it sits in the back of your mind and simmers slowly. I find the ‘simmering time’ vital as you take the idea, push and pull it...
by GillianPolley | Jun 19, 2014 | a woodland garden and driveway, drainage, driveway, Ecogrid, evergreen plants, Foliage Planting Design, garden transformation, Hedges, landscaping works, Lawns, linear drain, machinery, Plants, Polley Garden Design, resin bound stone, sandstone paving, shrubs, sloped driveway, soft landscaping, SUDS, SUDS compliant, trees
The final phase of landscaping is the installation of a paved circle for a sitting area, lawn and plant bed preparation. Soil preparation is the key to good strong plant growth. The plant bed area is cleared of unwanted vegetation and bricks, concrete, stones etc...
by GillianPolley | Jun 15, 2014 | a woodland garden and driveway, Design, drainage, driveway, Ecogrid, garden transformation, landscaping works, Lawns, linear drain, machinery, Polley Garden Design, resin bound stone, sandstone paving, sloped driveway, SUDS, SUDS compliant
The sloping area of the driveway presented a problem as gravel could not be used and the clients did not want to use paviors, concrete or asphalt as a surface material. The solution was to use Ecogrid with resin bound stone, which is SUDS (sustainable urban drainage)...
