Topiary looks good on containers and plants are easy to control in this environment. You can also move the pots around the garden to show off your topiary skills. Starting Your Topiary Select your plant and container. Box, Laurel or Yew are good subjects to start on. Plant your shrub with some slow release fertiliser [...]

If your garden makes you feel blue try these blue plants to shock and awe the locals….

Too many plants crammed into a garden can be a joy not a problem unless they are weeds or weedy specimens.

                      This is an interesting photo because it shows a diverse range of colour in the garden without any flowers. This is an excellent way to design a garden because it provides year round interest. Flowers are then icing on the cake. The colours in [...]

This week I had lunch in the roof garden of the 16th Century ‘Soup Kitchen’ in Stafford. The tables in the restaurant and outside on the pavement had very welcome fresh flowers. The roof area was flat with a split level but overall it gave me a couple of ideas. Roof Garden Ideas Artificial grass [...]

Make better use of your space by thinking in 3D.  Height is an obvious area for development of a more intensely 3D garden but depth can be developed by planting blues at the back as they make distances recede. Root vegetables, roof gardens, living walls and other developments are pushing the boundaries (Oh yes pinching [...]