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Creating beautiful outdoor spaces to spend time in as a family is always an exciting and worthwhile endeavour… but it’s all too easy to focus your attention entirely on the back garden and neglect the front. Of course, you want to design a useable space at the back of the house that can be enjoyed […]

If you’re lucky enough to have a coastal property, either as your main place of residence or as a holiday home, you’re sure to find the burgeoning trend of coastal resilience landscaping of particular interest. Homes close to the sea, while beautiful, are being put at increasing risk by climate change and rising sea temperatures,

With a brand-new year just around the corner, now’s the perfect time to think about what you want to achieve at home. Where your gardening and landscape design is concerned, adopting a sustainable approach will not only make your outdoor spaces look beautiful and be environmentally responsible – you’ll be very trendy, to boot! That’s

There’s a common misconception that gardening and landscaping on a slope is particularly tricky – but you’ll be pleased to hear that this is far from the actual case.  You can still achieve the garden of your dreams if you are dealing with an incline, but you will need to make a few little changes

Looking for some garden and landscaping design inspiration at the moment but aren’t sure where to begin? Well, might we suggest the stunning wabi-sabi look as a particularly strong option, which first came to the fore in Japan and which has its roots in Buddhist philosophy… with the key concept of beauty in imperfection at

It always pays to investigate new and upcoming trends when embarking on a landscape garden design project, so you can source lots of new ideas and find inspiration in some previously unconsidered corners. One particularly intriguing new direction for gardens that’s really starting to curry favour is a somewhat gothic aesthetic, characterised by dark planting,

Landscape and garden design can be pretty tricky to get right, especially if you’ve never embarked on such projects before – but we’re blessed to live in the 21st century, which means we have never-ending technological advancements to help us get the job done. While platforms like Pinterest and Houzz can really help you source

Whether you have plans in place to sell up in the near future or not, it’s always generally worth thinking about what projects will likely add the most value to your home when planning renovation work, just in case you do decide to up sticks and move elsewhere at some point. You want to get

While colour and texture are certainly aspects of planting that need to be considered when mulling over garden and landscaping design ideas, there’s one other factor that certainly deserves some serious thought… and that’s fragrance! Having a beautiful garden that smells as wonderful as it looks will certainly heighten the pleasure of spending time outside

It would be wonderful if money were no object, but this is very rarely the case for most of us – and, when it comes to landscaping and garden design, it’s essential to come up with a realistic budget and do all you can to stick to it. Costs can quickly spiral if you aren’t