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

10 things we can do in our own little haven You might think that climate change is all to do with pollution and gases and recycling, and you would be right. It is affecting all of us. Every year, the wet bits get wetter, the hot bits hotter and the dry parts dryer (yes I...Read More

10 Tips to help you get it right in your small garden. What is a small garden? To be honest it is all relative, out here in the ‘burbs’, we have a real variety of garden size from the few acres to a few metres, what I am talking about here is anything under 100...Read More

What is a focal point and 5 reasons why you should have one? Firstly, what is a focal point? If you look the word focal up in a thesaurus, it says; principal, pivotal, central, crucial, important and main.  Indoors a focal point may well be a TV, a fire place or a picture, or a...Read More