Author: Chris

Gardens in Blossom

This is it… the clocks have changed and our gardens are bursting into life with, if we have worked hard, a spectacle of colour thanks to our early summer flowering plants and trees.

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April! What a wonderful month!

I’d recommend stocking up on the energy bars and porridge oats this month because it’s time to roll your sleeves up and really get cracking in the April garden where all your planning and hard work over winter will now be starting to pay off.

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Town Gardens. Small is Beautiful.

The perfect town garden for me would be a space of green calm with different ‘rooms’ for entertaining and relaxing. A small seating space with a comfortable and stylish outdoor lounge in which I could unwind, surrounded by small trees for screening and lush under-planting. The sound of a water feature would help mask the urban background noise and subtle uplighting amongst the plants, plus dappled lighting in trees would make the space usable through into the evening.

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Spring is here. Tidy up your garden!

Let’s start with the big tidy up. Now is the time to cut back the last of the dead stems dangling from any perennials, which you’ve kindly left in place for the wildlife and now is also the time to mulch your flower borders

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Pruning for Beginners

This is the time of year when seasoned gardeners pick up their pruning shears and shiny new secateurs and swing into action in the garden to cut, tidy, nip, twist, prune and stake in order to prepare plants for the new growing season which is almost upon us.

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Garden Maintenance in February

February is the month when you garden starts to show the first signs of coming back to life after the go slow and dormancy of winter and because of that, it’s one of my favourite times to get outdoors and really make a difference to by sowing the seeds – literally and figuratively speaking – for the garden of your dreams.

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Pergolas and other uprights

When you think about garden design you will probably think about all the different dimensions you want us to include in your garden – a veggie patch, a swimming pool, a shed to keep the tools in, a table to have lunch in the shade and one to catch the evening sun but one of the most important dimensions in great garden design is the one that is the most overlooked – the vertical or upright structures that help give the overall design a three dimensional perspective.

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Garden Maintenance in January

January is actually one of the busiest months in the gardening year. We prepare for the always welcome arrival of Spring, in a few months’ time there are still some clearing, tidying and even planting jobs to do before the soil temperature drops and the risk of frost increases.

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Conservatories and glasshouses. Unique garden rooms.

The timeless elegance of a beautifully crafted glasshouse doesn’t just bring an architectural beauty to the garden it also extends your growing season at both ends of the gardening year.

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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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