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Vegetable Growing

It’s time to get into your Spring planting rhythm as we’ve landed in April and now’s the time to get your hands on your beets and your beets in the earth. Whether that earth be in a container, the ground or inside a greenhouse, beets are very versatile, bulbous givers of oftentimes purple plenty and […]

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Maintenance Mowing, Making Lines While the Sun Shines

Enzo, Esther and Toby were maintaining lawns in one of our Surrey Gardens when we caught up with them recently at work. Enzo has been a core team member with us at Graduate Landscapes, running a maintenance team for two decades; he has a vast wealth or horti-knowledge and know-how and his colleagues wax lyrical […]

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The Knepp Wildland Project

The Knepp Wildland Project, is a re-wilding masterpiece located on a site of previously agricultural low Weald land near Horsham in Sussex, is a leading light in the conservation movement, an experiment that has already produced astonishing wildlife successes in relatively few growing seasons. Initial rewilding at Knepp began in 2000 and the site has […]

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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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3D Garden Design Hurtmore, Godalming, Surrey

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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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