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The New Romantic Garden
A sneak preview of my new book on garden design
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The Gardening Mind is 3 today 🎂
From a seedling newsletter to a blooming community: this week, we're celebrating The Gardening Mind's 3rd birthday with, amongst other things, a chance…
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Small Garden Design - Week 4
This week, we're getting a feel for what lies beyond the garden. Plus, there's a great big Bulb giveaway
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The Small Garden Design Course
Plus: October's container planting idea, squirrels, why you shouldn't sweep up autumn leaves, best asters, and lots of news
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Bulb meadows and how to make them
Ways to create spring impact by planning now - planting designs for bulbs in grass for interest from January through to May
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Gardening in autumn - a new mindset
Plus: a bindweed revelation, an easy September pot planting, fun in the garden and a design trick, a spring bulbs cheat sheet, and the next Ask Me…
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Garden design challenges: how to deal with sloping gardens
A case study
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Essential gardening tips and tricks - Storecupboard basics 3
This week: demystifying annuals and perennials, new bulb collections, a book giveaway, hot yellows in the garden, and a garden design trick
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Do you have an oddly-shaped garden? A triangular-ish space? An awkward front garden? No back garden? A small garden? Tiny budget?
This week's Garden Design Challenge: a case study
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How to make a resilient gravel garden, easily
How to make a gravel garden which is drought-tolerant, rain-tolerant, heat-tolerant and cold-tolerant. Plus: will I be brave enough to plant this week's…
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Garden design challenges: easy ways to deal with a wide and shallow garden
Plus: container planting ideas, and a fabulous Must-Have plant to attract pollinators
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How to choose the right plants for your border, and my secret trick in planting design
Do you find it tricky to decide how many plants to use in a flowerbed? This week, I share one of my real-life planting designs to help you figure out…
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