Design Advice
Plan your design to scale
Grow your own fruit and vegetables
It may sound tedious and uneccessary, but a simple scale drawing, planning your garden to scale can prevent you from making expensive mistakes with your garden design. You can plan your garden very simply on graph paper, or if you are stuck why not engage the services of a garden designer. Planning your garden to scale can also save you money when ordering plants and materials as you are less likely to get the quantities wrong. Read more »
Visit gardens for inspiration
Apartment Gardening
The best way to see which ideas work in the garden (and which ones don't!) is to visit as many gardens as you can. The RHS and National Trust Gardens are a good place to start, but you can also find some other great gardens to visit in the Yellow Guide Read more »
Save money by planting bareroot
Plants for your garden
Bare-root trees and shrubs are available between November and March each year. They are only available in the dormant season, but they are worth waiting for as they offer a significant cost saving over buying containerised plants Read more »
