Archive for November, 2007
Deck the halls with boughs of holly …
November 28th, 2007And deck the garden too. It’s not too early to start decorating your outdoor space for the festive season, but forget the bling-bling garden lights and the ghastly nodding reindeer – garden style can be utterly delicious and still not descend to vulgarity or blowing the National Grid each time you turn on the outdoor […]
Garden furniture
November 25th, 2007This is the time of year to make space at the back of the garage or in a garden shed to store garden furniture for the winter. If you can’t do this, remember to tilt furniture and keep its feet clear of wet ground. You need to do this even if you have some […]
A roof garden for Bill Clinton
November 22nd, 2007Since the beginning of November, four lorry loads of soil and ninety different species of plant have been hoisted to the roof of the William J Clinton Presidential Library and Museum. They are creating a roof garden overlooked by Clinton’s own penthouse apartment.
When the library was built in 1994, it won a silver award under […]
Plants for winter style
November 19th, 2007 Structure and Shape – Make the most of grasses because they have a wonderful structure that works well with snow, frost and ice and even snow.
Colour - During the winter with the light levels low, colours look much denser, meaning they appear stronger but less subtle in shade -planting black grasses alongside the white […]
Winter style
November 16th, 2007How do the three garden types we’ve looked at in detail cope with winter weather? French Provincial – rural French gardens usually get at least a sprinkling of snow, so structures and plants that are traditional to this theme will usually cope well.  This is the time to check whatever you plan to leave outside […]
Winter window boxes
November 14th, 2007  Winter window boxes are a superb style statement – and quite often, the only sense people will have of how your largely dormant garden might look in the full flush of summer.
What should you put in them?Â
Well flowers are colourful but many of them suffer frost damage – giving them some shelter by using […]
Good fences make good neighbours
November 10th, 2007But they also make a style statement.  The most recent arrival on the UK stage is steel fencing which is sprayed with an epoxy resin in a wide range of colours. It’s durable and – of course – can be tinted to match your garden colour scheme. There are also water walls starting […]
Going up …
November 5th, 2007 A unique design by the architects of the London Eye will be unveiled at Kew Botanical Garden next week.
Kew’s Rhizotron (taken from the Greek rhiza , meaning root) will give visitors a unique opportunity to delve into the unseen, underground world of trees. Entered through a ‘crack in the earth’ visitors will find a […]
What does your garden say about your personal style?
November 2nd, 2007 Gardens offer an opportunity for self-expression – and the elements of garden design can be used to express our dreams or desires. Such elements may be related to the layout of the garden - the arrangement of paths, beds and open spaces, or the design features - plants, materials and accessories that ‘deliver’ the […]
