Do you want a show garden out of your window?
It’s the season for flower shows and whether it’s Chelsea, Tatton or your local flower show, you see these amazing spaces and possibly think I want that!
A visit to York Gate Garden
There’s always something new to see at York Gate, the renowned garden in Leeds developed by the Spencer family over 40 years. Its design draws inspiration from the Arts & Crafts movement- but its impeccable appearance today is a testament to the many volunteers...
Weeds and How to Control Them
Oh joy! It’s raining again and the weeds are sky-high!
Take Charge of your Garden
Designing your own garden space It’s time to get the garden ready for summer. But this is also the time of year when some of us realise we need to do a more thorough job than just mowing the lawn and pulling out a few weeds. In fact, with a sinking heart we realise we...
Get ready to shop!
Some tips for getting the most from a trip to the garden centre
From Dream to Reality: How to Choose a Garden Designer
You’ve decided to enlist the services of a garden designer – someone experienced in translating your wishes into reality. How do you find one and how do you decide who to commission?
Garden Design in winter?!?
So this summer you’d like to be enjoying a glass of wine whilst watching the children play in a well thought out outdoor space? It might be a cold winter day in Harrogate, Wetherby or Leeds – but now’s the perfect time to start planning your new garden. The garden design process starts by instructing a garden designer and finishes with that perfect garden in the heat of June – well maybe not cracking-the-flagstones hot but hot enough to sit outside and enjoy your garden!
Design is all around us…
I’ve just returned from a short trip to Switzerland. Whilst most England football fans were sitting in the sun, I went to the Vitra Design Museum. You had to take the bus across the border to Germany which was interesting, it is so easy to travel around now, you don’t...
Welcome to 2014!
Have you made any New Year resolutions yet? Here’s some gardening ones you might like to ponder as you sit cosily indoors with a cuppa…
Natures’ winter pick-me-ups
At this time of year we get a lot of pretty gloomy advice in the media - supposedly to help us deal with the after–effects of the Christmas period; the weight we’ve added to our hips… and lost from our wallets! Added to that there’s the dark evenings, the mountain of...