Garden Trends & Design

Garden Trends & Design

17 top garden ideas and designs from BBC Gardeners World Live 2024

Today’s top garden ideas at this year’s BBC Gardeners World Live were logs, corten steel, ponds, coloured garden furniture and more mixing of veg and flowers. They can all be used in traditional, naturalistic or contemporary contexts. BBC Gardeners’ World Live has three garden shows a year, featuring experts from…

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10 beautiful but tough perennials for too wet and too dry summers

We all want beautiful but tough perennials in our gardens this year. Temperate climates (those with spring, summer, autumn and winter seasons) are notoriously changeable. At Antique Perennials, Kinglake, Australia’s top perennial nursery, they know all about unexpected weather extremes. At first glance, the weather at Antique Perennials seems similar…

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5 types of slug resistant plants – the easy way to beat snails and slugs in the garden

Planting slug resistant plants is the most effective way of stopping slugs and snails from devouring your garden. You may have read articles or seen advertisements promising that you can get rid of slugs and snails permanently. But you can’t. Slugs and snails will always return, no matter what you…

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The rock garden is back – and it’s drought tolerant and low maintenance

A rock garden – often called a ‘rockery’ – was once an essential element in both grand and smaller British gardens. Then they got too popular. Banks of stones and rocks were added to almost any garden, without any real thought or understanding. And then they were neglected. People stopped…

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Garden structure – the surprising reason why some borders look brilliant and others don’t

Garden structure means the permanent elements of your garden, and how they relate to each other. It’s the paths, pots, walls, fences, arches, arbours and pergolas. It’s the trees and evergreen hedges – all the elements left when plants die back for the winter. But this isn’t just about how…