Category: Home&Garden

Over the past few articles, we’ve looked at planting your gardens with fruit and vegetables for yourself and for those in need in your local communities. There has been much speculation on food shortages because of the current pandemic situation but the reality is there were going to be food shortages regardless this year. Unnecessarily …

This Garden Design Show episode features the second quick-sketch challenge. In ten minutes or less, designer Rachel Mathews will come up with as many landscape design ideas as she can for a viewer’s garden in the UK, near Cardiff. You’ll be able to see how to do a simple garden makeover on a budget. Rachel …

Modern Garden Landscape Plan Ideas In this episode, Rachel will share the secrets of creating a modern style garden. She will discuss how to use the “Less is more” method to get that modern style. Also, she will give a detailed advice on how to create the illusion of a longer garden by using design …

There is an amazing selection of garden pots available these days. Everything from classical terracotta, through to modern glazed urns in different shapes, sizes and colours. Pots can make a great focal point, regardless of whether they have plants in them or not. If you have a nice urn shape, they are very well-suited to …

This is the garden design of Silas, a Successful Garden Design student building a Swedish house in a New England style. He has quite an awkward shaped garden, yet he’s managed to come up with a fantastic design that helps disguise the angled boundaries. The design has to incorporate beautiful existing trees as you can …

A lot of people want the joy and satisfaction of designing their own garden but are scared they are going to muck it up and waste their money! As you probably already know, I share ALL my 25 years worth of professional garden design experience in online garden design and planting courses. The formula I …

A big departure from what we normally cover in a Garden Design Show, but I hope you’ll enjoy it! First, we look at permaculture tips for healthy plants and at approx 13 mins we look at natural buildings made from sand, clay, straw and wood… In this episode, we take a look at how very …

Sloping gardens can be terraced or left with the natural slope, the design shapes you choose are critical to get right because

I’m pleased to announce that there’s a brand *NEW* course that’s been added as a FREE bonus to all our Successful Garden Design courses. Introducing the Food Garden Formula Course! This course is designed to show you how you can create a really productive food growing garden AND have it look good! There are 7 …

In this video, Rachel walks you through what she considers to be the ‘Master colour’ when it comes to successful garden design… Watch Samual Earp Artist’s video on greens to learn more about colour values and shades of green which will help you to combine plants well in your garden.   Comments comments