Tag: plants
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A Little Patch of Lawn: Seed, Water and Dog-Proofing
The ground in front of the new raised bed gets levelled, seeded and watered using rainwater from our water butt. There’s just one final challenge: keeping the dogs out until the grass has a chance to grow!
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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…
