Adding magic to your garden with winter fragrance. Whilst working as a garden designer, I am often asked to provide some winter interest to a garden. It is often easy to turn to the visual; using evergreens, and coloured stems to add a visual impact in the coldest months. One aspect that is easy to...Read More

Adding colour with confidence Try to think like an artist and paint a picture with colours in your garden. Create drama and interest in your garden by planting spots of your favourite colour throughout the garden: a clump close to the house, another in the middle and more at the end of the garden. The...Read More

Let go of your gardening guilt Guilt plays a huge part in our lives today. We are encouraged more than ever by TV, social media, and images all around us to feel that what and who we are is less than we should be. We feel guilty when we eat ‘bad’ food, we feel guilty...Read More

Do it in your own style 5 tips to great out door entertaining. With Summer approaching and covid19 restrictions relaxing, we will be entertaining in our gardens in no time, but this may be a sign of the future, for some time, just like Flu & Covid infection rates may rise and fall and eating...Read More

When building a bird friendly garden, you don’t have to tear up the Garden.  Even if you live in an apartment with a tiny balcony or small courtyard, you can still participate in wildlife gardening.  A successful garden for wildlife is built on four provisions: shelter and protection, food sources, water sources, and nesting areas....Read More

Attract Bees and pollinating insects into your garden It won’t have escaped anyone’s notice who follows the news and media, that there are a lot of people worried about bees. Bee numbers around the world, are in decline along with other pollinating insects such as butterflies, moths and hoverflies. Of the 270 species of bees...Read More