Creating a Mediterranean-style garden
This guide blends sun-loving Mediterranean aesthetics with the damp-winter realities of our UK climate, thoughtful hard landscaping for intimate areas to relax or entertain, chic features and focal points, clever planting schemes, and a handful of cornerstone creative style options. Increasingly popular, a Mediterranean garden means you can enjoy a drought-smart, low-fuss garden that still feels warm, sunlit and timeless.
Garden ideas: How to create the perfect shingle dry garden
Our increasingly dry summers are great for beach-goers, but they cause havoc across the country for gardeners. Creating a dry garden with plants for dry climates is a low maintenance option.
As a garden / planting designer who also builds landscaping projects, and living in close proximity to Beth Chatto who developed the first shingle dry garden ideas on their old carpark site, I've been very mindful to include them where possible in Hortus Pink projects.
This is for two reasons, firstly they utilise locally sourced pea shingle which is widely available throughout Essex and Suffolk; but also secondly they are really beautiful and can offer a diverse opportunity for a low maintenance garden ideas.