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How to make a more regenerative garden

In farms and estates across the country there are many grand re-wilding projects underway, conceived to let Nature regain the upper hand. At an individual level, in your own garden you can play your part too…

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Key design tips for rejuvenating a mature garden
Key design tips for rejuvenating a mature garden

Or how to see the wood for the trees…

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How and when to plant bulbs in your garden
How and when to plant bulbs in your garden

It’s time to plant your Spring bulbs…

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The wild garden
The wild garden

Some people can’t stand a leaf out of place…

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The quest for the perfect aquamarine tile
The quest for the perfect aquamarine tile

The brief was to transform a forlorn zone at the far end of a walled garden…

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Ornamental Grass – how to master this key element for success in a low maintenance garden
Ornamental Grass – how to master this key element for success in a low maintenance garden

There are a couple of golden rules for choosing and maintaining ornamental grasses…

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On reflection
On reflection

A recently-created private garden in Hampshire…

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LATEST PICTURES: Our work at RHS Chelsea 2018
LATEST PICTURES: Our work at RHS Chelsea 2018

2 designers, 45 volunteers, 1650 plants, 4 RHS feature gardens…

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Designing for RHS Chelsea 2018
Designing for RHS Chelsea 2018

My mid January blues were blown aside when an exciting invitation popped into my inbox... 

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Take a garden on the wild side
Take a garden on the wild side

The owner of the only remaining fully-intact garden made by the designer Gertrude Jekyll, Ros Wallinger knows her subject inside out...

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Regal planting in Dorset
Regal planting in Dorset

Municipal planting can be pretty grim. But just look at these... 

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Timeless is an over-used word in garden design
Timeless is an over-used word in garden design

But this new terrace feels as if it's been part of the garden forever...

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A proper old-fashioned conservatory
A proper old-fashioned conservatory

This one’s in a secluded corner of... 

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No-garden garden design
No-garden garden design

On Tuesday evening at the Garden Museum Tom Stuart-Smith and client Peter Sisseck spoke about a ‘garden’ they've been creating. They call it a garden, but...

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Box on home turf
Box on home turf

Like many garden designers and other horti types, these days I’m on a quest for alternatives to Buxus..

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Meeting Professor Nigel Dunnett
Meeting Professor Nigel Dunnett
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Beyond perennial meadows
Beyond perennial meadows

Brousonnetia papyrifera. ‘The Paper-Mulberry tree is a shrub of but little beauty...’ wrote John Sims in 1822 in Curtis’s Botanical Magazine...

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Pathways in the landscape
Pathways in the landscape
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View fullsize The slightly sinister exotic-leaved plant among the ferns on the edge is benignly named Podophyllum 'Spotty Dotty'. This is in a shaded corner of a Windsor garden created earlier this year by @NewBarnGardenDesign. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @NewBarnGardenDe
View fullsize Meeting of 3 materials in a garden staircase: riven sand stone steps, clay tile risers and Corten retaining wall panels. Deployed in a steep hillside garden in Haslemere in a renovated property that combines arts & craft and contemporary architec
View fullsize Whatever the season I love the slightly louche low-slung lines of this @gazeburvill Splash lounge seating installed in a @NewBarnGardenDesign garden in Windsor. This pic taken in Autumn. Swipe left to see it in Summer. #gardendesign #haslemere #surr
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View fullsize Grasses providing almost year-round drama, structure and colour on the edge of woodland. @Knollgardens⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @NewBarnGardenDesign #gardens #gardendesigner #gardendesign #haslemere #surreygarden #newbarngardendesign #landscapedesign #gard
View fullsize If you have a sizeable garden, be bold and go for big planting drifts. They make the space more legible with sweeping blocks of colour like these at Trentham. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @NewBarnGardenDesign #gardens #gardendesigner #gardendesign #
View fullsize As summers get hotter, we need to get more ingenious about squeezing pools and water into our gardens. Plenty to learn from #LaLouve garden created 30 years ago by #nicoledevesian in Provence with a long swimming pool hugging the boundary retaining
View fullsize Bury Court gardens - their future in doubt due to impending change of ownership - have an elegiac quality more than ever this Autumn. @PietOudolf first UK commission and Christopher Bradley-Hole’s grid of grasses, pergola, reflecting pool. No w
View fullsize The mutt's been out snuffling in the cobwebs this morning, harvesting up the last remains of the blueberries on Black Down... ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @NewBarnGardenDesign #gardens #gardendesigner #gardendesign #haslemere #surreygarden #newbarngardendesig
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View fullsize Took this pic only last weekend at the madly eccentric and beguiling gardens of Arundel Castle... ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #gardens #gardendesigner #gardendesign #haslemere #surreygarden #newbarngardendesign #landscapedesign #gardeninspiration #sussex @ar
View fullsize I like the way these grasses seem to shimmy their way down the steps and terraces of this garden in Haslemere completed by @NewBarnGardenDesign in Spring. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #gardens #gardendesigner #gardendesign #haslemere #surreygarden #newbarngar