Category: Landscaping

The hardest part of making a garden is not the design (though ‘designers’ like to pretend that it is), the hard part is physically building it. The design is important … Read More

The food producing shrubs have a number of uses that make them especially important in the food garden and they can make up a significant proportion of the plants (especially … Read More

Coppicing Relatively few American gardeners have even heard of coppicing and most probably don’t even know what it is. However most have probably noticed the phenomenon behind it; that when … Read More

Open water is a unique element, unlike anything else you can put in the garden and you should have at least one water feature of some kind (and preferably more). … Read More

Paths should be efficient, safe, secure, comfortable and attractive. They are one of the most basic building blocks of the garden, in fact you could lay out the whole garden … Read More