Category: Garden Design
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Constructing a Wildlife Friendly Pond
A focal point to a landscape design project in North Somerset was the construction of a wetland habitat (or contemporary water feature depending on your point of view). The pond features a striking hardwood decking overhanging the waterbody, with lighting and contemporary materials. The sloping profile suits plants, animals and habitats of different depths, with…
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Planting Autumn Bulbs
Wick, South Gloucestershire, planting bulbs for spring flowering. Naturalising Daffodils in a large expanse of lawn should provide a good display this spring. Some areas of this lawn are naturally more prone to waterlogging so white Camassia’s and Snake’s-head Fritillary were selected as good species to naturalise. Not too late to be planting Tulips and…
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Welcome to Aust, a Forgotten Landscape.
A new base for Edwards Garden Services, the village of Aust in South Gloucestershire, a perfect home for Gareth balanced between his Bristol and Welsh roots. A village in the heart of the Lower Severn Vale, always associated with a route across the estuary, now an iconic Grade I listed building, otherwise known as the…
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Herbaceous Perennials instead of Bedding Plants
A feature bed, central to a wide forecourt. The box border is a bit large and we will potentially reduce it at some point, but the immidate question was how to ‘decorate’ it? A seasonal change of tradtional bedding wasnt fancied aboth aesthetically and financially so we decided to plant perennials and roses (Queen of…
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Planting a Pleached Hedge and Woodland Border
An 18th century walled garden in Wick, South Gloucesteshire, part of one of the old mill complexes on the River Boyd. A bit of a blank canvas with regard to planting but restored as a garden, not a car park or mediterranean themed landscape with swimming pool. Which makes a nice change. You have to…