Garden Design Styles

Understanding colour schemes from the colour wheel can greatly enhance your ability to create visually appealing designs and artwork. Colour can evoke both positive and negative feelings and emotions in the garden. If you’ve ever looked at a garden and found the colours jarring or awkward, the chances are the colour wheel has been ignored. […]

Designing a garden for a rented property can be frustrating and confusing, especially since you don’t own the property or flat. For many renters and rental properties, the garden is ignored. Maybe a few lacklustre container plants, pots, and many temporary bits and bobs. However, designing for a rental property can be far more enriching […]

It can be easy to become confused between a formal and informal garden style. Certainly, because some fusion gardens mix the two muddying the design waters. This garden design guide to formal gardens will show you how to spot one, design a formal garden and why you may choose one for your own garden space. […]

When it comes to designing a garden, more often than not, our excitement to fill our gardens with beautiful flowers, trees, decorations, and furniture can sometimes get the better of us. In our haste to create the perfect garden, many gardeners make some fundamental mistakes. These garden fails can often undo all the hard work […]

The Northern Star feature garden aims to showcase 5 very different and diverse community gardens in one stunning garden design. The RHS and BBC asked me earlier this year to be the designer of this challenging brief. To help showcase the best of northern gardens in one show garden to help encourage new gardeners. No […]

When it comes to designing a garden, you can feel overwhelmed, stuck or lost in choice. This is where a reputable Garden Designer can save you time, money and frustration in creating the garden of your dreams! This guide will take you through the process of using a garden designer or, if you’re a new […]

Informal Gardens are probably the most common garden style. An informal garden is less restrictive than, say a formal garden in its design symmetry. Informal gardening can free you from restrictions such as having any detailed horticultural or design knowledge. Thus allowing you to ‘have a go’ at gardening when you first start out, which […]

This show garden is split into different zones to represent the diverse eclectic mix of community gardens here in the North West. I’ve designed this garden around the theme of diversity and accessibility. With a number of zones to represent them. Garden Ninja designing at RHS Tatton 2021 It’s a huge honor to be asked […]

Modernist garden design is a striking way to connect your outdoor space to your home, especially if you’re completely renovating your house with a super-slick modern look. This design style is very distinct and very much requires an ‘all-in’ approach. Ideally, the modernist garden design will be part of a house build or renovation. That’s because […]

If you’ve started to dig around a little into the world of Garden Design or have been binge-watching Gardeners’ World, you’ll have come across the term ‘Borrowed Views’. Other terms like a focal point or eye hook are sometimes used, and it may have sparked your imagination to use these in your garden. What on […]