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Category Archives: Gardens

Monthly Garden Tips

by George Smith / on 26th April 2016 / in Blog, Gardens, Tips

May is definitely the most dynamic month of the year as your garden springs into life; your job is to make the most of it!

Clean And Clear

Make sure all dead material from the winter, such as leaves, dead stems etc. are removed to prevent pests and diseases affecting the plant and to allow space and air for emerging growth. If you haven’t done so yet, thoroughly clean pond pumps and filters to ensure a good flow of water helps to aerate your water feature, encourage plant growth and minimise algae build-up as the sun starts to warm the water. Be careful not to disturb any fledglings in hedges and frog spawn in ponds.

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The Wonders Of Wildflower Meadows

by George Smith / on 18th April 2016 / in Blog, Gardens, Tips

Six great reasons for creating a wildflower meadow in your garden.

A Splash Of Colour!

Planned and planted correctly, a wildlife meadow will give you an ever-changing view from Spring to Summer of some of Britain’s most amazing species of native wildflowers.

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Looking for inspiration? The National Gardens Scheme and National Gardening Week are great places to start

by George Smith / on 4th April 2016 / in Blog, Gardens

If you’re looking for ideas on how to transform your garden to delight your friends and family and be an inspiration for fellow gardeners, then a great place to start is the National Gardens Scheme. It’s a way for proud gardeners and garden owners to show their garden to the public for one or two days a year and at the same time raise money for charity.

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Giving nature a home in your garden

by George Smith / on 11th March 2016 / in Blog, Gardens

If your idea of heaven is a garden full of buzzing bees, birds singing in the trees and hedgehogs snuffling in piles of dead leaves, then maybe its time to make some real changes and give your garden over to wildlife.

If you’ve lived with the same garden for many years, perhaps now is the time for a change. Or maybe your large garden has become a burden and difficult to manage.

Perhaps you’ve got a young family and want your children to be able to explore and learn about nature in your own garden.

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Creating Instant Impact With Minimum Effort

by George Smith / on 20th February 2016 / in Blog, Gardens

We transformed a blank canvas into a garden filled with interest, form and character.

When David and Catherine moved to Oxfordshire from Kent, they chose a new build as the place to enjoy their retirement. While their new home was hassle and maintenance-free, their new garden was a complete blank canvas of just a lawn and patio without any individual character or interest.

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The Great Wall Of Wallingford

by George Smith / on 28th January 2016 / in Blog, Gardens

In November 2015, we started a project with some unusual challenges. Our client’s recently refurbished energy-efficient Superhome was set back from and raised up above a busy road in central Wallingford.

The brief was to create a front garden with space for parking, a seating area, a swimming pond and wildlife pond, natural planting and wildflower lawn. The clients were very keen to use native species of plants to encourage wildlife, with a further emphasis on reducing road noise whilst affording privacy and security.

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Is it a Bird? Is it a Plane?

by George Smith / on 30th November 2015 / in Blog, Gardens, Tips

Following on from my earlier blogs on wildlife gardens and ponds you’ll have guessed by now that, allied to my professional interest in gardens and all things horticultural, is a fascination for wildlife and, in particular birds.

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You’ve got a friend in a leaf

by George Smith / on 22nd October 2015 / in Blog, Gardens

Last month we were waxing lyrical about Autumn leaves. But for most of us leaves are great while they are still on the trees, but once they fall, they lose their attraction. They can clog up ponds, kill your lawn, encourage slugs and generally make your garden look a mess. So this month’s top tips are all about leaves and what you can do to make leaves your friends:

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