The Garden Planner

Wooden decking has become a ubiquitous garden feature and its popularity is understandable. Wood is easy to work with and has unique natural warmth, so a small deck can easily be built as a DIY project. (more…)

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Here are a few tips (in bullet-point form) for planting, including suggestions for container plants, large shrubs, perrenials climbing plants, trees and more!

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Shrubs can create different effects and sensations within a garden that vary with the time of year. They can complement feature plants or offset structural features such as timber or brickwork all year round.

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Conifers provide excellent screening options for fences and structures, but can also be used as exciting, colourful features, or to divide areas within a garden.

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Numerous amounts of plants lend themselves useful to container gardening in the same approach as weeping trees.

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Container gardening is the art of persuading plants to flourish in what is for them a totally artificial environment.

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Naturally our recommendations are personal ones, but having said that shape is important, perhaps we should define this more precisely.

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Climbers are wonderful for softening unsightly structures such as fences, sheds and walls. They flow as well as climb and do so at an encouraging pace. Climbers suit screening purposes or wall mounted container planting and can give a garden colour and variety all year round.

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Trees add height and structure to a garden design as well as giving other benefits such as providing shade, privacy and a sense of sound and motion. The following are small to medium sized garden trees that should be available fairly easily.

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When choosing pots, it’s important to look at size and type that’s suited to what you want to grow and material that is practical for purpose and position in the garden.

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