Margery Fish: 7 Cottage-Garden Lessons
Borrow Margery Fish's cottage-garden ideas for a small UK plot: a winding path, cosy planted rooms, layered plants and self-seeders kept in check.
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Gertrude Jekyll: 7 Border Design Lessons
Borrow Gertrude Jekyll's best ideas on colour, repetition and seasons to plan a lovely, easy-to-manage 2m x 4m border in your own UK garden.
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Clever Ways to Hide Wheelie Bins
Easy ways to hide wheelie bins in a UK front garden, from timber bin stores to screens and evergreen plants, without blocking the bin crew on bin day.
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Permeable Paving for Front Gardens
Permeable paving for UK front gardens and driveways: the 5 square metre planning rule, the sub-base that makes it drain, and which surface to choose.
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How to Build a Stumpery for Shade
How to build a stumpery in a shady corner of a UK garden, from finding free stumps and setting them safely to the best ferns and shade plants.
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Water Rill Design for a Calm Modern Garden
Garden rill design made simple: how wide and deep to build it, how the hidden pump works, which materials to choose, what to plant and how to care for it.
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Chinese Garden Design: 7 Rules for UK Gardens
Chinese garden design for UK plots: borrowed views, moon gates, rocks with water, zig-zag bridges and meaningful plants that grow happily here.
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Knot Garden Design: Plant a Tudor Classic
Knot garden design made simple: choose a pattern, pick blight-free plants, mark it out with string and sand, plant it up and keep it crisply clipped.
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Jungle Garden Design Ideas for UK Plots
Jungle garden design for UK plots. How to layer big leaves, hide the boundary with winding paths and turn a small garden or courtyard into a lush jungle.
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Coastal Garden Design: Beating Salt and Wind
Coastal garden design for UK seaside plots: filter wind with hedges, plan salt zones, add sheltered seating, gravel and raised beds that love sandy soil.
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Pocket Woodland: Mini Forest in a Small Garden
How to plant a pocket woodland in a small UK garden corner: dense native whips in four layers, no-dig soil prep and a simple first-year care plan.
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Colour Wheel Garden Design: Pairing Flowers
Use the colour wheel to pair flowers in UK borders: complementary contrast, calm analogous drifts, warm and cool colours for depth, plus green and white.
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How to Find Your Garden Style
Find your garden style in four simple steps. Match your plot, how you use it and your spare time to cottage, modern, wildlife, gravel and more.
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Spanish Courtyard Garden Ideas for UK Plots
Spanish courtyard garden ideas for the UK: terracotta and tiles, a wall fountain, shade, warm colours and pots of hardy and tender Mediterranean plants.
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Tiki Garden Ideas: Tropical Style for UK Plots
Tiki garden ideas for UK plots: a bamboo bar, torches and fire set safely among bananas, palms and cannas, plus shelter and winter protection.
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English Country Garden Style Without the Mess
How to get the English country garden look in any UK plot: evergreen structure, layered drifts, a calm colour palette and self-seeders kept in check.
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Garden Tips to Sell Your Home Faster
Garden tips for selling your home: quick weekend jobs for kerb appeal, staging the back garden for viewings, and where not to waste your money.
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Japanese Stroll Garden Design for UK Gardens
How to design a Japanese stroll garden in the UK: a winding path that reveals scenes one by one, borrowed views, stepping stones and hardy plants.
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12 Classic English Garden Elements
The 12 features behind a classic English garden, from yew hedges and a lavender-lined path to topiary, a sundial and a rose arch, and how to fit them in.
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Contemporary Cottage Garden That Lasts All Year
How to make a contemporary cottage garden: evergreen shapes and grasses as a frame, loose cottage flowers in between, a tight palette and easy upkeep.
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One Pot, One Year: A Container Planting Plan
A planting plan for one large pot that looks good all year: an evergreen, four perennials and layered bulbs, plus what to do each month.
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Nostalgia Gardening: Grow Grandma's Favourites
Nostalgia gardening brings back old-fashioned cottage flowers and heritage veg. What it is, which varieties to grow, and how to save your own seed.
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How to Write a Planting Plan, Step by Step
How to write a planting plan for a UK border, from brief and site notes to a scale drawing, plant numbers and a shopping list you can take to the nursery.
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Garden Colour Schemes: How to Choose Yours
How to choose a garden colour scheme that suits your space, light and mood, with hot, cool and white ideas, foliage colour and a month-by-month planner.
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No Mow May and No Mow Lawns Guide
How to do No Mow May in a UK garden: what flowers to expect, how to keep it looking tidy, and how to start mowing again in June without harm.
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How to Create a Bog Garden in the UK
How to build a bog garden in a weekend: digging, lining, the best plants for wet soil, the wildlife it brings and easy care through the year.
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Year-Round Interest Garden Planting
Plan a border that looks good all year, with evergreen structure, spring bulbs, summer flowers, autumn grasses and bright winter stems and bark.
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Green Roofs for Sheds & Garden Buildings
How to put a living sedum roof on your shed: checking it can take the weight, the layers to lay, the best plants and the easy yearly care.
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How to Create a Gravel Garden UK
How to make a gravel garden in the UK: the best gravel to use, getting clay ready, tough plants that love dry spots and easy care through the year.
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How to Plan a Mixed Border
Plan a mixed border of shrubs, perennials, bulbs and grasses that looks good all year. How deep to make it, what goes where and how to prep the soil.
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School Garden Ideas: A Plan That Fits Term Time
School garden ideas for UK primary schools. Raised beds, crops that fit term dates, wildlife areas, summer holiday care, safety and funding tips.
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Making a Fairy Garden Step by Step
How to make an outdoor fairy garden step by step: the best container, tiny plants that stay small, safe accessories and simple care through the year.
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Coastal Gardening UK: Salt-Tolerant Plants
How to garden by the sea in the UK. Simple shelter belts, windbreaks and the best salt-tolerant plants for breezy coastal plots.
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White Garden Planting Scheme UK
How to plan a white garden border: a dark backdrop, silver foliage and white flowers for every season, plus a moon garden for summer evenings.
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Front Garden Ideas UK
Easy front garden ideas for UK homes: evergreen planting that looks good all year, a clear path, smart bin screening, boundaries and paving rules.
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Gardening Projects for Kids: 12 Easy Ideas
12 easy gardening projects for kids, sorted by age, from cress heads and bean teepees to potato buckets and pizza beds. What to grow, when, and how.
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Japanese Garden Design for the UK
How to create a Japanese garden in the UK: the key ideas, plants that love our climate, zen gravel gardens, water, stone and rough budgets.
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Cottage Garden Planting Plan for the UK
How to plan a cottage garden border: the classic plants, how to layer them, colour ideas and a ready-made planting plan for a sunny UK border.
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Children's Garden Design Ideas
Fun, safe ideas for a family garden: play zones, mud kitchens, easy crops, wildlife corners and safe plants, from toddlers right up to teens.
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Mediterranean Garden Planting in the UK
Bring a taste of the Med to a UK garden with lavender, rosemary, olives and gravel. The plants, the spot and the drainage tricks that make it work.
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