Tag: planning
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The raised beds are getting a makeover
We already have two raised beds in the garden. We bought them a few years ago, during the Pandemic, when growing our own vegetables seemed like a very sensible thing to do. They’re both six feet long by four feet wide and were positioned on the lawn beside the garage, with enough space between the…
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From a sketch to an actual garden design
I’ve already established that I have a garden, and that I have rather a lot of ideas about what I’d like to do with it. The problem is that ideas are easy. Getting them all to fit into an actual garden, with its awkward corners, existing buildings, access routes and rather unhelpful dimensions, is considerably…
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Before: The Garden as it is right now
Every garden project needs a starting point, a moment where you stop, look around, and take an honest photograph before you get carried away with ideas. This is that moment. These pictures were taken on the same evening, walking every angle of the garden with my phone. No staging, no tidying. Just the garden as…
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Designing Gardens for Your Family and Climate
Before choosing plants, colours or deciding what goes where, there’s one thing to understand about this garden. It has opinions. The soil is thick clay. Winters are getting wetter, summers are getting hotter and drier, and the garden needs to cope with both without becoming either a swamp or a dust bowl. So the design…
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Documenting the Garden: Successes and Surprises
Eventually, all the plans, schemes and clever ideas have to meet their biggest test. The garden. And that’s where What’s Growing comes in. This is the bit where we stop talking about what might work and start finding out what actually does. Plants, plants and more plants There will be plenty of them. Some carefully…
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Transforming Garden Ideas into Reality with AI Assistance
I have a garden. I also have ideas. Quite a lot of ideas, actually. The problem is that not all of them fit together. Some are impractical. Some are probably ridiculous. And some sound brilliant until you ask the most important question: Where on earth am I going to put it? So I recruited some…
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Blooming Lovely Chaos: Real Garden Adventures
It started with a conversation with ChatGPT. A few questions about the garden turned into ideas. Ideas turned into planting schemes. Planting schemes turned into layouts, plant lists, colour palettes and increasingly ambitious plans. And somewhere along the way, I realised that ChatGPT wasn’t just helping me think about the garden. It was helping me…
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