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Archives for December 2012

Friday inspiration ~ a vibrant, green border.

December 20, 2012 By Jill Anderson Leave a Comment

Friday inspiration ~ a vibrant, green border.

  Only a few days until Christmas, and much as I love the winter silhouette of the garden and the glorious frosty scenes that we’ve had here recently, I came across this photo of a lush, green garden and it made me long for spring. It’s such a lovely, fresh vibrant combination and I thought you’d like to […]

Filed Under: Blog, Gardening, Inspiration, Plants Tagged With: Alchemilla mollis, Dicksonia antarctica, green flowers, ladies mantel, Tellima grandiflora, tree fern

Inspiring & practical books for gardeners

December 17, 2012 By Jill Anderson Leave a Comment

Inspiring & practical books for gardeners

  Whether you’re a professional designer, keen gardener or armchair gardener, books about gardens are a great source of inspiration and practical information for gardeners.   I always have some on my list at Christmas, these are three of my favourites that you might like to add to your list: Late Summer Flowers by Marina Christopher:   […]

Filed Under: Blog, Garden Design, Inspiration, Plants Tagged With: allotment, books for gardeners, Contemporary Colour in the Garden, late summer flowers

Friday inspiration – how to organise the lay-out of your garden

December 14, 2012 By Jill Anderson Leave a Comment

Friday inspiration – how to organise the lay-out of your garden

  Winter used to feel like a time when I was just waiting for Spring to begin, a break in the proceedings before we could really get on with the business of gardening. This is partly because in my job, winter can be frustrating when the ground is too hard and frosty to plant or lay paving.  Gardens may […]

Filed Under: Blog, Garden Design, Plants Tagged With: Acer palmatum, Carpinus betulis, Hornbeam, shrubs, winter planst

All you need to know about this sweetly, scented winter flowering shrub.

December 6, 2012 By Jill Anderson Leave a Comment

All you need to know about this sweetly, scented winter flowering shrub.

  Just in case you haven’t met before, can I introduce you to the winter flowering shrub Viburnum bodnantense Dawn .   Not only does it have the kind of soft pink blushed flowers that you expect to find on a summers day, they’re also sweetly scented. It’ll be flowering now in more sheltered gardens but not untill January […]

Filed Under: Blog, Plants Tagged With: pink flowers, Viburnum bodnantense Dawn, winter flowers

Small steps towards sustainable garden design

December 3, 2012 By Jill Anderson Leave a Comment

Small steps towards sustainable garden design

  I had a bit of a wobbly moment when the delivery of materials arrived during the building of my first show garden at the Hampton Court Flower Show in back 2008.     Everyone else had shiny, plastic wrapped palettes of bricks, paving etc deposited at their sites. Whilst I had a pile of timber […]

Filed Under: Blog, Garden Design, Recycling & Sustainability Tagged With: garden design, recycling, RHS Hampton Court Flower Show, sustanability

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