Plants

In this section you will find information about a range of different plants and how they can be used to best effect in your garden. Amongst other things, we look at: solutions for tricky areas; how to create impact with plants in a particular season; and topics such as plant structure, texture and colour. Read on to find out more. 

 

Alison

Plants For Containers

Plants, Plan Your Garden

Learn all about container gardening: which plants to choose to create impact and how to look after them. Read more.

Alison

Top Plants for Winter and Early Spring Interest

Plants, Plan Your Garden

Here's an inspiring selection of winter and early spring interest plants to keep your garden looking bright and colourful through… Read more.

Katie

My Favourite Shrubs for Year-Round Interest

Plants, Plan Your Garden

Here are some hard working shrubs that bring beauty to the garden throughout the year - and particularly when they're… Read more.

Katie

Native Plants

Plants, Wildlife, Plan Your Garden

Encouraging biodiversity and wildlife into our gardens is a current hot topic in the landscaping and horticultural industry. Our towns… Read more.

Alison

Screening Plants & Ideas for Confined Spaces

Plants, Plan Your Garden

Get inspiration and learn about plants suitable for screening in smaller gardens. Read more.

Katie

Where to Use Roses

Plants, Plan Your Garden

Roses are a great choice for contemporary gardens, and can be used in a variety of situations to create impact.… Read more.

Katie

Types of Roses

Plants, Plan Your Garden

Roses are some of the most popular and beautiful garden plants. Here's a simple guide to some of the favourite… Read more.

Katie

Planting for Pergolas

Plants, Plan Your Garden

Structures such as pergolas are brilliant for creating a focal feature in the garden - even more so when they… Read more.

Alison

How To Cope With Wet Soils and Gardens

Plants, Plan Your Garden, Drainage, Design Challenges

If you constantly find yourself battling a soggy, wet garden, you're likely wondering what you can do about it. This… Read more.

Katie

Perfect Pond Plants

Plants, Plan Your Garden

A pond can be a wonderful feature to any garden and an important part of a successfully designed pond are… Read more.

Katie

Ideas for a Beautiful Winter Garden

Plants, Plan Your Garden

Read on for tips on how to make your garden extra special this winter. Read more.

Katie

Designing with plant shape and form

Plants, Plan Your Garden, Shape & Form

Considering the shape and form of plants is essential for any good garden design. Here we look at how plant… Read more.

Katie

Using colour in your garden

Plants, Plan Your Garden

Colour is an important part of any garden design. In most designs, it's the plants that provide the colour, so… Read more.

Katie

Long Flowering Perennials For Your Summer Borders

Plants, Plan Your Garden

A well-designed garden provides interest from early spring through to late autumn. If clients are looking for a low maintenance… Read more.

Alison

Really Useful Little Plants

Plants, Plan Your Garden

Every designer has a "go-to" list of trusty plants that they use many times and love because they will always… Read more.

Katie

The Planting Plan Process: How it works

Plants, Plan Your Garden

With the weather starting to warm up and having spent a lot of time on designing and implementing planting plans… Read more.

Katie

Using Planting Texture in Design

Plants, Plan Your Garden

This post looks at an often forgotten tenet of garden design - texture. If you're looking to add some texture… Read more.

Katie

Shrubs to add winter sparkle to the garden

Plants, Plan Your Garden

The festive season has begun and as the temperature falls the garden is often seen as gloomy and dull and… Read more.

John

Copper Beech (Fagus sylvatica f. purpurea)

Plants, Plan Your Garden

The copper beech, also known as purple beech, has to be one of my favourite trees - I'm fortunate enough… Read more.

Alison

Plant Focus: My Two Favourite Asters

Plants, Plan Your Garden

If Salvia ‘Caradonna’ is one of my go to plants for early-mid Summer, then Aster amellus ‘Violet Queen’ & Aster… Read more.

Katie

Plant Focus: Ornamental Alliums

Plants, Plan Your Garden

One of the most widely recognised and used perennials, the ornamental Allium is a tough, easy to grow plant with… Read more.

Alison

Plant Focus: Salvia ‘Caradonna’

Plants, Plan Your Garden

This is definitely one of my “go to” plants when preparing planting plans as it is so reliable, well behaved,… Read more.

Katie

Low Maintenance Front Garden Planting

Plants, Plan Your Garden

We recently completed the planting for a front garden for a client in Twyford. This planting needed to be low… Read more.

Alison

Plant Focus: Rosmarinus ‘Miss Jessopp’s Upright’

Plants, Plan Your Garden

A Rosemary? Yes, I am extolling the virtues of a simple, commonly available Rosemary plant. What's to like? Rosmarinus ‘Miss… Read more.

Katie

Trees for Autumn colour

Plants, Plan Your Garden

Autumn, for me, is the time for trees. When you think of autumn you likely think of the fiery reds,… Read more.

Katie

Adding structure to planting borders

Plants, Plan Your Garden

A very common request when discussing planting requirements with clients is for a garden with year-round interest - it normally… Read more.

Alison

Plant Focus: Syringa meyeri ‘Palibin’

Plants, Plan Your Garden

Love the flower and wafting scent of Lilac, but put off by the fact that they grow too big too… Read more.

Alison

Plant Focus: Nandina domestica & its smaller relatives

Plants, Plan Your Garden

Until recently, Nandina domestica was little known and rarely used by gardeners in the UK, but it is now gaining… Read more.

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