Find garden design ideas and inspiration for planting schemes, garden structures and features, hard landscaping materials and outdoor entertaining areas that will meet with the approval of even the most discerning family member.
Useful advice from garden design experts on creating an outdoor space that is usable, beautiful and practical from the coldest Winter months to the hottest days of Summer.
With the UK travel traffic light system firmly in place, many people are not willing to take the risk of travelling afar. So what can you do when you crave a summer escape, without the hassle of tests, airport queues and quarantine? For the solution you need look no further than your own back garden.
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The whole world has had a year like no other and our lives have changed in all sorts of ways. Freedoms have been snatched and jobs lost. The affectionate hugs with loved ones that we all took for granted, switched to Zoom calls and waves from a distance. We appear to be heading in the
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Small spaces are proving creative outlets for keen gardeners during lockdowns. Tiny gardens, petite patios and bijou balconies are all receiving green makeovers to create oasis of calm for some much-needed escape. Using containers and pots has traditionally been the way to pack a small plot with plants. But a the growing trend for vertical
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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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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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