Tag: design


  • 7 Landscape Design Tips for Beginners

    If youโ€™ve never tried your hand at landscape design, you might find all the choices you can make a bit overwhelming. Which plants do you want to include, and where should they go? Should bed lines and paths curve or run in a straight line? What about accessories such as stylish benches, eye-catching planters, and…

  • 8 Gravel Garden Ideas: Design, Planting and Maintenance

    Gravel gardens are the perfect solution for gardeners who don’t want to spend too much time watering plants. Not only resilient, but when gravel gardens are covered in a patchwork carpet of alpines, sedums and other drought-tolerant beauties, they can look beautiful, too. They are ideal for sunny spots where you can create a Mediterranean-style…

  • 15 garden design styles that will stand the test of time

    Your garden is your very own paradise, which is why it can be so difficult to get started on it. Weeding, planting and harvesting are really the simple tasks, the maintenance that keeps your haven happy and healthy. Itโ€™s the design and the original build that takes its toll, especially when youโ€™re stuck for new…

  • Garden bento box is a top design trend for 2026

    The Garden Media Group has released its 2026 Garden Trends Report and there’s one trend standing out as the most satisfying idea for our backyards: botanical bento. It’s the concept of creating a garden bento box: neat, compact garden design with everything you need in reaching distance to bring a backyard idea to life. ‘Everything…

  • Garden design for beginners: my 10 simple rules

    Like most thirtysomethings, Iโ€™ve been a renter for most of my adult life, and therefore seen the garden as somewhere to experiment (slash, make mistakes). Until recently my haphazard approach involved picking whatever was in bloom at the garden centre and plonking it in the ground in the hope that my borders would magically flourish.…

  • Grampa’s Weeder – The Original Stand Up Weed Puller Tool with Long Handle – Made with Real Bamboo & 4-Claw Steel Head Design – Easily Remove Weeds Without Bending, Pulling, or Kneeling.

    – Old-School, Easy-To-Use Design That’s Been Around Since 1913. Please Read Instructions On How To Use The Tool Properly & Watch Product Videos. It’s Almost So Simple, People Over Think It!Easy & Simple Weeding Tool That Saves Your Back & Knees With Grampa’s 45″ Stand Up Long Handle. Remove Weeds Without Bending, Pulling, Or Kneeling.Grampaโ€™s…

  • This Tiny Workshop is a masterclass is space saving design

    If you thought your garden didn’t have enough space for a workshop or even a shed, then think again, as this tiny workshop proves. This small garden shed idea, built by Mike Robinson, an engineer from Plumstead, South-East London, has just been awarded the title of Cuprinol Shed of the Year after he entered it…

  • The winners of the Homes & Gardens design awards projects category have been announced

    The annual Homes & Gardens Design Awards is a recognition of the best names in design. From private homes and boutique hotels to gardens and restaurants, this yearโ€™s project winners demonstrate why design excellence transcends boundaries – creating environments that are as functional as they are beautiful. 1. Best UK residential project Winner: Chelsea Barracks…