Tag: Planting

A Guide to Garden Planting styles

Planting styles within a well-crafted garden design unite every design element as one. There are a wide variety of planting styles on offer, each bringing its own array of colourful flowers, natural shapes, and structure.

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Water Features in Garden Design

Water features have been popular in garden design for centuries. Water is essential to life, and plants. It might be for this reason that being close to water has been scientifically proven to be calming, stress-reducing, and health improving.

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Wildlife Garden Plants

Increasingly, wildlife is in need of and finding safe havens in our gardens. Introducing certain plants and features within garden designs helps encourage a wide variety of species of wildlife including birds, bats and hedgehogs.

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Edible Flowers

Edible flowers have been enjoying such a renaissance it’s unusual to sit down for a fine dining experience in a fancy restaurant and not find a flower head or bud on your plate which is not just there for aesthetic purposes and decoration – you can eat it!

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Winter Wonderland Planting

The winter garden provides a space for serenity and pause in the cycle of life and can also bring hungry birds and other wildlife into the garden when you are planting with an eye on berries, seed heads and winter blooms.

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Snowdrops. Did you know?

The fruits of our labour are all around us at the moment as the tiny snowdrops bulbs we planted last autumn are now appearing. They give you a serious ‘bang’ for your ‘bucks‘ and look amazing naturalised with anemones and crocus bulbs.

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