Disabled Garden Designs

This attractive garden is suitable for those who are confined to a wheelchair. It has an interesting layout and aesthetically pleasing shape which are one hundred per cent practical, with consideration given to all th

Georgian Garden Designs

Whatever your dreams, it’s good to have them and although everyone’s dreams are different, if money were no object, children and pets did not need to be taken into consideration, and one lived in a world where afterno

Garden Mistakes

Mistakes can easily be made by taking the wrong decisions at planning stage, and I have been guilty of a few myself when aiming for a quick and inexpensive garden conversion on an addition to our cottage. The result w

Plant Association: Trees, Herbaceous, Bulbs, Ground Cover Plants

If you mix trees, shrubs, herbaceous plants (perennials) and bulbs together you can cover up the ground in layers from the trees down, as with the natural structure of the woodland. This creates growing conditions for

Container Gardening: Planting in Tubs

The Advantage of Tubs In a garden where you wish work to be cut down to the minimum, tubs are ideal. If low-maintenance planting is successful there will be no room in the beds between the permanent ground cover, plan

Planting on a Slope

Should your garden be on a slope it does not necessarily mean you will be planting on a slope, as the garden may be terraced and have retaining walls. But planting on a slope is slightly more difficult and requires a

Guide to Growing Low-Maintenance Vegetables

Vegetables on the whole are not trouble-free, but they are so rewarding and enjoyable that if you can spare the time for them, I too should devote a little space to them – just to whet your appetite! Two of the

Garden Paving and Hard Surfaces

The easy alternative to grass for small gardens Brick Before buying the cement or levelling the ground, the most important decision to be made for paving is the choice of material, and there is a huge variety from wh

Garden Ornaments and Statues

Punctuation or Features In a trouble-free, low maintenance garden that does not rely on vast displays of carpet bedding, grand herbaceous borders, imposing vistas or specimen plants, well-chosen garden ornaments can e

Garden Lighting

If you have created something beautiful, it is a great sadness not to be able to appreciate its beauty after sunset. If you think of the garden as another room, is it not odd to have a room you cannot use after dark?

Types of Garden Herb

9. HERBS These herbs are all decorative shrubs or perennials and can be used in with other ornamental plants. They all prefer well drained soil and full sun. Camomile A low mat of feathery foliage with daisy flowers

Guide to Garden Hedging

A hedge can be one of the most prominent features of a garden, yet few amateur gardeners seem to appreciate the great variety of hedging plants that is available or give much thought to which of many possible roles th

Introducing Flowers

The richness and variety of the world’s plant life is so immense that no single publication could ever do it justice. The flowers mentioned in this Flower section only show a few examples of some of the different plan

Flowers that change the landscape

It is not in the rampant vegetation of tropical jungles that the most colourful displays of flowers are to be seen. A hot, moist climate encourages the development of foliage, but the flowers seldom dominate the pictu

Flowers of Europe

Compared to the continents with a warmer climate, Europe is poor in plant species. However many of the flowers of this region have great charm and delicacy and their comparatively small stature sets them apart from fl

North American Flowers

Botanically Canada has much in common with Scandinavia and Siberia in that a large area consists of rather flat coniferous forest land broken by numerous lakes. Despite the fact that the spruce trees and pines of Cana

Flowers of South America

Golden trumpet Allamanda cathartica Family Apocynaceae The golden trumpet is a forest climber in its wild state, but can also be trained as a bush and is often grown in this fashion in gardens in tropical Africa. It w

Flowers of Australia

When Captain Cook reached Australia on his first voyage, the two botanists who had joined the expedition, Dr Solander and Joseph Banks, were amazed at the richness of the flora they discovered and gave the name Botany

Flowers of Africa

With the exception of South Africa, the African continent as a whole is not noted for its flowers. It is characterized instead by the vast extent of certain kinds of rather monotonous types of vegetation, such as for

Flowers of Asia

Whether the Garden of Eden was a reality or just a myth, the fact remains that Asia has given to the world its most delicious fruits and many of its finest flowers. The ancient trade routes from China to India and Per