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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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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
butterfly on yellow flower

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
Bee and foxglove

Gardeners Have Just Gotta Love The Bugs

by Thames Valley Landscapes
21st March 2019
Reading time 3 minutes

In the past spotting a bug or creepy crawly on the leaves of a favourite perennial or prize-winning vegetable would have struck horror into the hearts of most gardeners. Retribution would have been swift and almost always involved reaching for the insecticide to take down the invading invertebrate. Nowadays gardeners are much better versed in

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Gardeners Have Just Gotta Love The Bugs
rain drops on daffodill

How to protect your garden from wet and windy weather

by Thames Valley Landscapes
22nd February 2019
Reading time 4 minutes

The weather forecast hints at some wet and windy weather in the Thames Valley these coming weeks. It’s something we all expect from this time of year. But what if – like in 2015 – the bad weather turns up and stays for a while?  With advice on how to create drought-free gardens and outdoor

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How to protect your garden from wet and windy weather

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