Brilliantly simple design tips for gardens that are on a slope
What to do if your garden is on a slope, whether its and upslope or downslope, gardens don't have to be made flatter to become better! Brilliantly simple design tips to help you understand how you ca...
24 Marras 202319min
Front Gardens - are not a small version of the back garden
Front Gardens are so important, yet are often left as uninspiring gardens. But the front garden is what you and your visitors walk past to get to the front door - so the garden should say something ab...
17 Marras 202318min
How to design Odd Shaped Gardens
Life would be so much easier if gardens were regular shapes, but more often than not now gardens come in all sorts of weird and wonderful shapes. So how do you design a garden in one? Well, there are...
10 Marras 202322min
How to design a rectangular or square shaped garden
Gardens come in all shapes of rectangles - these can be long narrow rectangles, wide shallow shaped gardens or perfectly square spaces. So what makes for an interesting design in a regular box-shaped...
3 Marras 202322min
How does a garden become family-friendly?
What does family-friendly mean in design and layout terms? Most gardens have to be multifunctional spaces, providing space for little people to boom about in BUT that the adults can relax and enjoy th...
27 Loka 202320min
Garden Styling - How to Choose the Right One
You may think of garden styles as Cottage, Mediterranean, Contemporary, Minimalist etc but it's actually much simpler than that. But before you lay the styling out, you need to understand how each of ...
20 Loka 202319min
How do you choose the design layout for a garden?
The key principle when you are faced with lots of decisions is to break these down into simpler decisions. And that is really all design is about, asking simple questions, the result of which will hel...
13 Loka 202326min
Why does everyone think having a beautiful garden means more work?
I am a lazy gardener, I want to spend time enjoying being in the garden, not fussing over the jobs and chores I think I need to do. If you are like me, then listen in, and I will give you the best ti...
6 Loka 202320min
