Category Archives for Garden Design
Fruit and Vegetable Gardening: Planning the Plot
When establishing your fruit and vegetable garden you must work to a plan. It does not matter whether you are changing a mature, existing garden or fighting your way through the builders’ debris for the first time—a plan is essential. … Continue reading
Shrub and Tree Gardens
Shrubs and decorative trees give a garden permanence, but they do a great deal more than that. They add a new dimension: they give it height and a sense of space. They help to bind the garden together, giving it … Continue reading
Preparing to Plant Your Herbaceous Borders
Preparation Ground preparation is best done in late summer, so that the ground has time to settle again before planting. Because perennials stay in the ground, once the border has been planted no major cultural operations can be undertaken. Thorough … Continue reading
Gardening from a Flat
A new craze is sweeping North America among frustrated gardeners who have little space for outdoor gardening. Cellars and basements are being fitted with powerful lamps and heat for underground gardening. Many sorts of plants can be grown under these … Continue reading
Retaining Walls and Terraced Steps
Retaining Walls The materials available for walls are many. The choice is yours. For low walls, of not more than two or three courses high, a light foundation of rubble tamped into the soil will be adequate. But more generally … Continue reading
Garden Ideas: Hilltop Gardens
Planning and making a hilltop garden is one of the greatest tests of a gardener’s ingenuity. The main priority is to provide shelter against gales for yourself and the plants in the garden. So the first job, after initial planning … Continue reading
Ideas for Hillside Gardens
Hillside gardens may at first thought be an almost impossible hurdle to establishing anything like a normal garden. Quite the reverse is true. Unless they are.bounded by tall trees on all sides, such gardens will invariably get sunshine for part … Continue reading
Designing Gardens in Awkward Places
Awkward Sites From the point of view of the amount of sheer hard labour that goes into the creating of a garden, those with gardens on more or less level sites are at a distinct advantage over those with awkward … Continue reading
Garden Ideas: Pergolas, Paths, Walls, Fences and Hedges
Pergolas and Walk-Ways There is a place in most gardens for a pergola or walk-through archway. At front or back doors, or over the patio — a pergola can look beautiful with a tub-grown clematis, or honeysuckle, or perhaps a … Continue reading
Garden Paving, Patios and Garden Steps
Paving and Patios Formal or informal, paving is an aspect of garden making that can make or mar the finished result. Of all forms of paving, precast concrete slabs are by far the most convenient and offer the greatest scope … Continue reading