Tag: Garden Designers

Hale Chapel Cemetery Memorial Garden – Farnham, Surrey

Born in 1892, Margery Fish was a leading light in the English Cottage Garden design style. Her work at East Lambrook Manor Gardens Somerset exemplifies her exploration of this style.

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Great British Garden Designers Margery Fish

Born in 1892, Margery Fish was a leading light in the English Cottage Garden design style. Her work at East Lambrook Manor Gardens Somerset exemplifies her exploration of this style.

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Garden Illusions, A landscape of lies

There are many tricks and techniques to alter your perspective and create illusions in a garden. Bringing some of these design ideas into the garden can change a feeling of a space. Here are some effective ways to alter your perspective in a garden.

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Great British Garden Designers Harold Peto

London born Harold Peto was one of the leading architect and garden designers during the Edwardian period. Embracing the Italian renaissance through his love of travel and history he was influenced by the Arts and Craft movement of the time.

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Great British Garden Designers Gertrude Jekyll

Surrey based Garden designer Gertrude Jekyll was one of the most influential garden designers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Spending most of her life in Surrey she grew up in the surrey family home of Bramley House, and spent her later years in her surrey home Munstead Wood in Godalming.

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Great British Garden Designers Lancelot Capability Brown

Lancelot Brown revolutionised British garden design in the eighteenth century becoming one of the most renowned landscape designers of our time. Designing over 250 exquisite garden designs, he worked on many prestigious country house gardens becoming very much sought after in Georgian times.

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Summer Gardening Tips

Summer is well and truly underway, and it is one of the busiest and most rewarding times of the year when it comes to our gardens.

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Top 10 Garden design elements – Part 2

Planting is the crowning touch of a garden. There are many ways you can achieve the perfect garden design, height and structure is foremost. Start planting with tall, large trees reducing down to smaller shrubs, perennials then bedding plants, this creates unity and composition.

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Here Comes The Sun… Summer Gardening by Enzo Montella

Its turning out to be a cracking summer so far, after a winter that had the horticultural tricky combination of waterlogged ground followed by sub-zero temperatures, it’s all come together nicely!

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February is the border between winter and spring

The clue to this month’s garden jobs lies in the quote above – February is the last of the precarious winter months and the time to make those preparations for coming Spring.

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