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.
Shady garden design tips and cornerstone Plants
If you’re dreaming of a lush, low-maintenance shade garden that thrives in a UK climate, you’re in the right place. This guide shows how to achieve a UK-hardy shade garden with practical, steps. You’ll discover design tips for hard landscaping, planting plans that suit damp or dry soils, and cornerstone plants that provide structure year-round. By following these strategies, you’ll create a garden that remains vibrant from frost to late autumn and looks good.
How to successfully redesign a planted border
If you’re thinking about refreshing your garden planting, you’re not alone - people across Essex and Suffolk do this every year and take great joy in the process. A well-planned border redesign can transform property appeal, create seasonal interest that boosts mental health, and improve the microclimate in your outdoor space. In this guide, we cover the planted border redesign essentials and give practical tips for border shape, implementing changes, existing plants, and new plant installation.
Why plant-orientated gardens matter
If you’re planning a garden makeover in the UK, you’ll gain more than just curb appeal by embracing plant-orientated design. A garden that prioritises living material—trees, shrubs, perennials, grasses, and climbers—delivers ongoing multi-dimensional benefits to biodiversity, climate resilience, mental health, and property value. This blog explores the benefits of designing new plant-orientated gardens in the UK and gives practical design tips for implementing changes, utilising existing plants, and introducing new plant installations. It also explains why living landscapes outperform purely hard-landscaped spaces on every level.