Garden Design Blog

    I have given up on waiting for a streetscape upgrade by Council. I am taking matters into my own hands and am redesigning my front garden to encourage A) My neighbours to hang out in my space B) Improve the overall streetscape. C) Make the space functional for my family. This is post [...]

I so can not help comparing Chelsea 2010 with Melbs Garden Show 2011 . Here it goes. Comparison one: there was a fab little idea for wall planters tucked in a corner of a Melbourne show garden and the plants (strawberries) were drooping with thirst. Its only Day 2 in Melbourne   – Chelsea plants [...]

      I think I have realised what is wrong with fake grass. This morning at 7.15am on the banks of the Yarra River in the most beautiful eucalypt landscape ever my dear friend’s ashes were scattered. The moon was its fullest on the west and the sun was rising like always over there [...]

Garden Beet has re-learnt a very very old lesson. If you are going to engage a designer or anyone for that matter- always always do your homework on the professional’s BUILT experience. It is so god damn easy for people to say ‘YES’ i can do that. People do that don’t they? You can do [...]

Veddw aint on the 2011 Gardens Illustrated Welsh Border Garden tour? How odd – it’s on the border of Wales and England and it truly impressed me and several others including Stephen Anderton (The Times) Only rarely does one come across a garden so ambitious and successful as the one at Veddw House. In 2004 [...]

Oh its christmas and all I can think about are glorious garden images. Frolicking through the webimages available at istock and various other image stores around cyber world I stumbled across this image. Girls are always used to sell stuff. But not gardening stuff. Gardening corporates usually steer clear of the girly phenomna and go [...]

As summer officially ends, cold and flu season approaches, why not try remedies grown by you instead of venturing to the chemist for expensive medicines. This guide from Floral and Hardy Garden Design will show you how by presenting 10 easy to grow plants that can be used for traditional home remedies. So not only [...]

I like a tinkle or deep dooong in the garden. But really – do we need to see the chime? In the Welsh Garden created by Anne Wareham the chimes are in a woods – not visible except when the visitor is underneath the tree canopy. I like that secret location. It added depth to [...]

For fear of sounding gushy I have just calmed myself. I LOVED it. My lordy I was wondering what all the hype was about. How great is it to enter a garden where plant, concrete, timber and gravel manipulation and trickery is orchestrated by someone who understands the power of topography (as well as colour, [...]

Gosh Mandy Buckland provided a great urban garden (complete with thin lines of living walls)  at this year’s Hampton Court show. A compact contemporary garden that I could definitely live with. It was the first garden I saw and soon became my favourite. The garden featured strawberries growing in the walls and along the table top. [...]