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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.

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Garden fence or hedge? Considering your options.

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by Thames Valley Landscapes
2nd March 2020
Reading time 5 minutes

Fences and hedges are the most popular ways of defining property boundaries. When we buy a house we generally find there are already hedges or fences in place and we don’t give them any further thought beyond giving the hedge an annual trim or replacing a broken fence panel after a particularly nasty storm. But

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Garden fence or hedge? Considering your options.
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The essentials of summer lawn care

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by Thames Valley Landscapes
19th July 2019
Reading time 5 minutes

There is nothing as redolent of an English summer as a classic billiard table lawn. Immaculate stripes of green basking in the sunshine with a strategically placed table and parasol for that all-important afternoon tea. These days, fewer people seem to have the courage to opt for a lawn but you don’t have to take

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The essentials of summer lawn care
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How to create a child friendly garden the whole family will love!

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by Thames Valley Landscapes
25th June 2019
Reading time 3 minutes

As a good proportion of us at Thames Valley Landscapes are parents, we’ve first-hand experience into how difficult it is to convince our kids to get outside and reclaim their rightful space in nature.  Yet we also notice that, once they’re out in the great outdoors, they quickly reconnect with the elements and start enjoying

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How to create a child friendly garden the whole family will love!
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How To Create High Drama With Garden Sculpture

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by Thames Valley Landscapes
22nd May 2019
Reading time 5 minutes
For the first time, sculptures are taking centre stage at RHS Wisley. In its ‘Exhibition of Modern and Contemporary Sculpture’ event that’s running for the rest of this year, the charity will feature work from six 20th and 21st century artists as a way of highlighting “the relationship between sculpture and the cultivated landscape.” With...
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How To Create High Drama With Garden Sculpture
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We Should Fight For Our Beneficial Bugs

by Thames Valley Landscapes
15th April 2019
Reading time 4 minutes

Turn the clock back to 1950 and the English garden was a different place. The atmosphere would have been alive with insects – an active, buzzy and hazy ecological environment full of tiny creatures. With just 1% of bugs actually considered ‘pests’, it’s likely that just about this entire airborne community was made up of

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We Should Fight For Our Beneficial Bugs

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