Reason 1 - Cheating the seasons Learning how to stock a garden seems like a much more complicated process than it actually is. The main reason for this is si...

Step 1 - Aspect Figure out your aspect, ie. light/sun levels in all parts of your garden. You will have 3 or 4 different aspects in your garden, even a sou...

It's time to stop lining up plants in a straight row! Flat, boring, stagnant and really old fashioned. Trust me on this! As with interior design, group pla...

Years ago borders were laid out with high plants at the back, medium plants in the middle and short plants at the front. This is still good practice so that...

Professionally designed gardens have extremely wide flower borders. Usually a minimum of one metre wide, but often far more. For normal sized suburban gard...

We humans are so crazy. This earth, this precious, precious earth we call home, we spray with toxic chemicals to kill plants because they have been labelled...

The study of colour is a massive science. We have cones in our eyes that interpret colours. We have 3 primary colours from which all other colours are create...