Guidance, advice and ideas from the experts at Thames Valley Gardens on how to build, maintain and grow your dream landscaped garden. Find tips on what to do each month. Inspiration for creating the garden design of your dreams. Planting ideas for year round colour and scent, and how to guides for maintaining your garden and keeping your lawn in pristine condition.
As we deck the halls this Christmas, one of our favourite traditions is to place a wreath on the door to welcome visitors over the festive period. An elegant way to bring the spirit of the season into your home, a beautiful handmade wreath has been used for centuries as a symbol of celebration, life,
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Gardens have long been a place of solace and rejuvenation, providing a connection to nature that soothes the soul. But what if you could take how you experience your garden to the next level by creating a sensory garden? Sensory gardens combine features, plants, surfaces and objects to stimulate all 5 of our senses –
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Gardens play such an important part in our lives. They give us the means to extend our living space and offer a place to relax and improve our health and well-being. With such a critical role, it’s important everyone can access and enjoy them. Creating an accessible garden allows anyone, no matter their age or
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Calling all veg growers, money savers, and parents looking for ways to keep young children busy and entertained. We’ve got just the trick for you. Did you know you can regrow vegetables from scraps. It’s really rewarding and an easy way to: Reuse and recycle what you normally put in the food waste into another
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If you’re blessed with a large garden it can sometimes be a daunting task to know where to start in a garden transformation. Often, large gardens can resemble open playing fields with a vast patch of grass in the middle surrounded by trees and shrubs. This layout makes the whole garden feel exposed and a
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With the big garden shows kicking off next month with Chelsea, it’s the time when we gaze into our crystal ball to spot the trends we see emerging for garden design and planting. The overarching trend towards ‘environmentally healthy gardens’ seem strong for 2023. As does the understanding of how important immersing ourselves in nature
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Nothing gives our team more pleasure that transforming a sprawling garden into an elegant and harmonious haven. Once we’ve planted the last plant, tidied away the last of our tools and applied the finishing touches, the ‘wow’ reaction we receive from clients as they admire the result is priceless. But before starting on the path
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Winter is often seen as a time of dormancy in the garden, with not much to do aside from hunkering down indoors and waiting for spring. However, there are several tasks that can and should be done in the winter months to ensure a healthy and flourishing garden come spring. Here are just a few
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Garden rooms are so much more than a ‘posh shed’. They are an increasingly popular addition for homes wishing to extend their living areas and add a little luxury to their outdoor space. A garden room is a stand-alone, well-built room that’s insulated against the elements and designed for the purpose for which it is
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Alongside landscaping beautiful grounds and gardens, here at Thames Valley Landscapes we also operate a grounds maintenance service that keeps your outside areas looking in pristine condition all year round. But what exactly is ground maintenance? What do maintenance teams do? And why is it important to keep your grounds well maintained? We’ve answered all
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