Category: Small Garden
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Realise the potential of your nature strip! It need not just be a stripe of green like all the others in your street. It’s a garden waiting to happen. Turning your verge into a bed extends your garden so you can have more of your favourite plants on display and share them with your neighbours.…
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Designing a garden drenched with sunlight is easy work, but how do you guarantee planting success when you’ve got a shady plot? “Shade in the garden is often seen as a challenge, but I like to think of it as an opportunity,” garden and landscape designer, Zoe Claymore, who is designing the British Rainforest Garden…
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Beginners may be wary about starting a vegetable garden, particularly one that is suitable for a balcony or apartment patio garden. But we’re here to tell you that there are a number of plants that actually thrive in containers, and that means that even the most amateur of green thumbs will be able to transform…
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Assess your space “You can rarely choose which direction your garden, balcony or terrace is going to face so adapt your planting to suit its situation and exposure to sun and shade. Hostas are good in the shade and they are particularly easy to grow (just beware of slugs – consider banding your pots with…
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Maintaining Your Perennial Garden The beauty of a perennial garden is that once it’s planted, you’ll enjoy flowers that come back every year. Your work goes from planting to maintaining, deadheading, fertilizing, and making sure the garden is ready for the next year. Assuming that you’ve planted a garden filled with primarily native plants or…
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There are few better ways to update your space for summer than by adding an outdoor kitchen. It offers an easy way to prepare food for alfresco dining, and also creates a sociable space for laidback eating that captures the essence of indoor-outdoor living. Our round-up of the best outdoor kitchen ideas will see you…
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Low-Key, Playful and Ready for a Glass of Cab: Steal These Outdoor Living Ideas from a Whimsical Napa Tasting Garden – Sunset Magazine Low-Key, Playful and Ready for a Glass of Cab: Steal These Outdoor Living Ideas from a Whimsical Napa Tasting Garden – Sunset Magazine Low-Key, Playful and Ready for a Glass of Cab:…
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When it comes to rethinking everyday spaces, practicality and style should always go hand in hand. And one idea that’s as clever as it is unexpected? Taking the laundry room outside. Tucked neatly into the garden, a utility hut can become a dedicated spot for washing and folding, instantly freeing up precious space indoors. With…
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When you have a tropical garden in your backyard, you don’t have to travel to a far-flung island in Asia or the South Pacific to escape the pressures of modern life. Defined by brightly coloured plants, dramatic shapes and vibrant flowers, a tropical garden can create a sense of calm, and make every day feel…
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Garden ideas from Olivia Laing’s Suffolk garden. Olivia kept some of the original shrubs below an old medlar, including a variegated euonymus and a spotted laurel, adding hellebores, Tellima grandiflora, Ornithogalum nutans and Tulipa ‘White Triumphator’ Howard Sooley Garden ideas come in all shapes and sizes, varying hugely depending on climate, soil, local planting traditions,…