Garden Design Blog

                                                                              These planters caught my eye whilst waiting for fish and chips on St Georges Road in [...]

    Here is my new system to build a vertical garden – it is my next project. Please excuse the messy planting – this is concept stage only. I think the galvansied steel conventional hooded vents might be a cheap solution (approx £3.99UK or $4.00 Aus) to creating wall planters (and even a vertical [...]

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 [...]

    The toy shop in Cefalu, Sicily knows how to use its wall planters to benefit its shop image and the public realm. What fabulous product placement, streetscaping and use of walls.  Perhaps this is living walls pre Patric blanc? These photos illustrate a great technique to blur the private and public domain. The [...]

Thank god I was playing around on twitter yeserday. One of my customers  decided to share his lounge room. And now his lounge is on my blog. How fab-ba-lis-tic is this white white house with those green green lush plants? They are planted  in a Woolly Pocket. Very beautful. And a very London look as well [...]

..ho hum ……….yet another garden designer stated that vertical gardens were a fad…AGAIN………. Well my plants are so happy with their wall planters that they are exploding with the most ridiculous colours – I never intended for yellow/pink/purple flowers to all come together – this garden was only ever temporary……(no not a fad, but a trial garden). [...]

All you need are some Woolly Pocket wall planters and some packing tape and its possible to have an instant gardening space in the smallest urban outdoor slice of London. This morning I quickly hung some pre-planted Woolly Pockets to the stair railings outside our place in London.  I must get some black packing tape and install [...]

Here are some working pics of Garden Beet’s vertical gardens for Steve Myburgh Designs. The stand is coming together with all the various wall planters. Woolly Pockets are providing a lush backdrop for Myburgh’s hanging copper chairs. I have found the Chelsea Flower Show to be pretty exciting  - I am totally in awe of [...]

Here are some shots of the green wall at the O2 centre in London’s east. While some of the plants are failing (sedums) I like the shape of this green wall and how it sits within the broader landscape. The main section of the green wall (front and sides) use some type of netted soil [...]

Above image Julian Ruxworthy Sydney Road in Melbourne, Australia is urban with little room for ‘greening’ Sydney Road’s local government (Moreland City Council) is big on greening. In 2000 the problem with Sydney Road (according to its local government) was is its lack of growing space for ‘greenery’. There were overhead powerlines galore, underground lines for [...]