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- Smart Plan – 10mm Gravel Over Hardcore Black Granite
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- Smart Plan – 150mm Deep Concrete Pad
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- Smart Plan – 150mm high DPC Trench
- Smart Plan – 150mm high DPC Trench Adjacent to Planting Bed
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- Smart Plan – 150mm high Paving Up-stand
- Smart Plan – 150mm Steel Edging Inset At Ground Level
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- Smart Plan – 20mm Gravel Over Hardcore Yorkshire Cream
- Smart Plan – 250mm Steel Edging Inset At Ground Level
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- Smart Plan – Acanthus mollis (Latifolius Group) ‘Rue Ledan’
- Smart Plan – Acer griseum
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- Smart Plan – Achillea Desert Eve Light Yellow (Desert Eve Series)
- Smart Plan – Aco Hexdrain Linear Drain
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- Smart Plan – Aco Raindrain | Driveway Linear Drainage Channel
- Smart Plan – Actaea simplex Atropurpurea Group
- Smart Plan – Agapanthus africanus
- Smart Plan – Amelanchier lamarckii
- Smart Plan – Amelanchier x grandiflora ‘Robin Hill’
- Smart Plan – Amsonia tabernaemontana var. salicifolia
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- Smart Plan – Anemone × hybrida ‘Königin Charlotte’
- Smart Plan – Anemone × hybrida ‘September Charm’
- Smart Plan – Aquilegia vulgaris
- Smart Plan – Aquilegia vulgaris ‘Nivea’
- Smart Plan – Aquilegia vulgaris ‘Nora Barlow’
- Smart Plan – Aquilegia vulgaris var. stellata ‘Ruby Port’
- Smart Plan – Artemisia ‘Powis Castle’
- Smart Plan – Asplenium scolopendrium
- Smart Plan – Aster x frikartii ‘Mönch’
- Smart Plan – Astilbe × arendsii ‘White Gloria’
- Smart Plan – Astrantia major ‘Buckland’
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- Smart Plan – Athyrium niponicum var. pictum
- Smart Plan – Baptisia ‘Pink Lemonade’
- Smart Plan – Baptisia ‘Vanilla Cream’
- Smart Plan – Bark Mulch
- Smart Plan – Beige Sawn Imported Sandstone Paving – Non Permeable
- Smart Plan – Bergenia ‘Bressingham White’
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- Smart Plan – Betula utilis var jacquemontii
- Smart Plan – Breedon Gravel
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- Smart Plan – Brick Retaining Wall (under 1.2m) with Sandstone Coping
- Smart Plan – Brunnera macrophylla ‘Jack Frost’
- Smart Plan – Buxus sempervirens
- Smart Plan – Calamagrostis brachytricha
- Smart Plan – Carex oshimensis ‘Everillo’
- Smart Plan – Carpinus betulus
- Smart Plan – Cathedral Imported Sandstone Paving – Non Permeable
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- Smart Plan – Composite Decking – Innodek Graphite
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- Smart Plan – Cornus alba ‘Sibirica’
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- Smart Plan – Corten Waterbowls
- Smart Plan – Creating a Tree Pit
- Smart Plan – Elaeagnus × ebbingei
- Smart Plan – Elaeagnus ‘Quicksilver’
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- Smart Plan – Festoon Lighting
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- Smart Plan – Fossil Mint Sawn Imported Sandstone Paving – Non Permeable
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- Smart Plan – Fossil Mint Sawn Imported Sandstone Steps
- Smart Plan – Granite Eclipse Bullnose Step Treads With Matching Risers
- Smart Plan – Gravel Mulch Black Granite
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- Smart Plan – Gravel Mulch Yorkshire Cream
- Smart Plan – Grey Clay Pavers Driveway
- Smart Plan – Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Pallida’
- Smart Plan – Hand Reconditioning for planting borders
- Smart Plan – Hebe ‘Emerald Gem’
- Smart Plan – Hebe parviflora var. angustifolia
- Smart Plan – Heptacodium miconioides
- Smart Plan – Hydrangea arborescens ‘Annabelle’
- Smart Plan – Hydrangea macrophylla ‘White Nymph’
- Smart Plan – Hydrangea paniculata ‘Limelight’
- Smart Plan – Imported Raj Green Riven Sandstone Paving – Non Permeable
- Smart Plan – Laurus nobilis
- Smart Plan – Lavandula angustifolia ‘Hidcote’
- Smart Plan – Lonicera nitida ‘Maigrun’
- Smart Plan – Lonicera x purpusii ‘Winter Beauty’
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- Smart Plan – Metal Inset Inspection Chamber
- Smart Plan – Millboard Smoked Oak Decking with Enhanced Grain
- Smart Plan – Nandina domestica
- Smart Plan – New Riven York Sandstone Paving – Non Permeable
- Smart Plan – New Sawn York Sandstone Paving – Non Permeable
- Smart Plan – Painting | Cuprinol Ash Black
- Smart Plan – Painting | Cuprinol Urban Slate
- Smart Plan – Painting | Neptune Ink
- Smart Plan – Philadelphus ‘Belle Étoile’
- Smart Plan – Phlomis russeliana
- Smart Plan – Photinia x fraseri ‘Red Robin’
- Smart Plan – Physocarpus opulifolius ‘Diabolo’
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- Smart Plan – Pinus sylvestris ‘Watereri’
- Smart Plan – Plant Support | Vine Eyes & Tensioners
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- Smart Plan – Porcelain Paving Grey Wood Effect – Non Permeable
- Smart Plan – Premium Lawn Preparation
- Smart Plan – Prunus laurocerasus ‘Mount Vernon’
- Smart Plan – Prunus laurocerasus ‘Otto Luyken’
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- Smart Plan – Prunus x subhirtella ‘Autumnalis’
- Smart Plan – Quercus ilex
- Smart Plan – Raised Bed | Timber Sleeper 200mm High
- Smart Plan – Raised Bed | Timber Sleeper 400mm High
- Smart Plan – Reclaimed Riven York Sandstone Paving – Non Permeable
- Smart Plan – Rendered retaining wall under 1.2m
- Smart Plan – Resin Bound Gravel
- Smart Plan – Retaining Flat Top Edging Under Paving (adjacent to a planting bed)
- Smart Plan – Rhus typhina
- Smart Plan – Rosa (English Shrub)
- Smart Plan – Salvia officinalis
- Smart Plan – Salvia rosmarinus
- Smart Plan – Sambucus nigra
- Smart Plan – Sarcococca confusa
- Smart Plan – Sarcococca hookeriana var. humilis
- Smart Plan – Shot Blasted Silver Grey Sandstone Paving
- Smart Plan – Silver Grey Dressed Imported Sandstone Setts – Non Permeable
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- Smart Plan – Silver Grey Sawn Imported Sandstone Paving – Permeable
- Smart Plan – Silver Grey Sawn Imported Sandstone Steps
- Smart Plan – Silver Grey Tumbled Sandstone Cobble Sett Pedestrian Path
- Smart Plan – Single Step Within Sandstone Sett Path
- Smart Plan – Skimmia x confusa ‘Kew Green’
- Smart Plan – Sleeper Wall (laid on belly)
- Smart Plan – Sleeper Wall (laid on end)
- Smart Plan – Soakaway in Lawn or Border
- Smart Plan – Soil preparation under trees (Clearance inc.)
- Smart Plan – Sorbus aucuparia
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- Smart Plan – Standard Plus Lawn Preparation
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- Smart Plan – Standard Soil preparation for planting borders (Clearance inc.)
- Smart Plan – Steel Clad Blockwork Retaining Wall
- Smart Plan – Steel Clad Blockwork Retaining Wall | Under Patio
- Smart Plan – Stepping Stones Through Lawn or Gravel
- Smart Plan – Taxus baccata
- Smart Plan – Taxus baccata ‘Repandens’
- Smart Plan – Timber Edging
- Smart Plan – Trachycarpus fortunei
- Smart Plan – Viburnum davidii
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- Smart Plan – Vinca minor
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- Smart Plan -Imported Sandstone Edge at Ground Level UNFINISHED
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- What’s my soil type?
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- Colourful garden ideas: Top 5 Ways to Add Colour to Your Garden in Spring 2024
- Five Best Spring Blossom Trees to Welcome Spring into Your Garden
- The Great Winter Hack: Does Your Apple Tree Really Need Pruning?
- Pollarding explained: Top 5 trees to pollard
- How to create your own formal hedges and topiary
- Composting: Your options for managing green waste at home
- What plant identification apps to use?
- What’s the best way to edge a lawn?
- 5 things you must consider before making a wild flower meadow
- Garden Design Advice
- How to stop an old tree stump from suckering
- Healthy ponds: How to avoid invasive water plants
- Types of shade in a garden
- How to grow Gladioli
- What to do if a squirrel damages your tree
- Why you need Hellebores in your garden
- How to design a garden for a changing world
- Accessible Gardens
- Best gardening podcasts: My top 12
- What To Know Before Visiting A Public Garden
- Trees & Shrubs With Autumn Attitude
- The Hepworth Wakefield garden
- Hydrangea aspera; in love with lacecaps at White House Farm
- Heatwave gardening; Yuccas and everlasting flowers
- Repeat-flowering multitonal roses
- Rewilding – should I leave my garden to run wild?
- Garden Trends for Northern Gardens this Summer 2022
- Zingy spring plant combinations
- Spring woodland magic; magnolias and more
- Witch-hazels; charismatic stars of the winter garden
- Marvelous midwinter berries, flowers and fragrance
- Twenty of the best new dahlias
- An autumn spectacle of texture, tone and form
- Bamboo care and control
- London in September; Chelsea and beyond
- Autumn Bulb Planting
- Box & Boxwood, your questions answered
- August on the allotment in Sheffield
- Taxus – The Perfect Native Plant
- Why is my Taxus turning brown?
- July; my month in plants
- Expert tips on growing bearded iris
- Unusual shrubs and trees for average sized gardens
- Plants for spring sunshine
- Flowering cherries
- Hardy Evergreen Ferns
- Growing Wisteria
- Winter flowering camellias
- Growing dahlias: A year on my dahlia patch
- Bringing vitality back to Chatsworth’s rockery
- Natural garden trees; the rowans
- Spotlight on building regulations & planning permission
- A Modern Country Garden
- Perennials with outstanding autumn foliage colour
- Best nurseries for perennials and grasses
- Best nurseries for unusual plants
- Woodland-inspired ground cover plants for semi-shade
- Wild-inspired shade-loving ground cover plants
- Urban-inspired ground cover plants for shade
- How to care for herbaceous perennials
- Are black plastic pots a thing of the past?
- Wisteria care
- Herbal elements
- Substitutes for Buxus sempervirens
- Top 10 plants for waterlogged ground
- Colour wheel planting
- How to plant a spring bulb lasagne pot
- Perfect for pleaching
- Nutrients and deficiencies
- How to water well
- Planting for soil type
- Spring bulbs for small gardens
- Our gardens in a changing climate
- Looking after your newly-planted trees
- Laying wildflower turf
- How to prune your Clematis
- The water table and your garden
- RHS Pruning Groups 11, 12 and 13
- Plant names
- Pruning Groups 8, 9 and 10
- Feeding your plants
- Bean amazed!
- Common British annual weeds
- RHS Pruning Group 7
- Sowing success
- Hardiness zones
- RHS Pruning Group 6
- Don’t work out, work outdoors
- Common British perennial weeds
- The Art of the Planter
- Mulching explained
- RHS Pruning Groups 2, 3 and 5
- Automated Garden Lighting
- Garden trends for 2018
- Weeds in a lather over Foamstream
- RHS Pruning Group 1
- Bestall & Co awarded Best of Houzz 2018
- The jeopardies of Japanese knotweed
- Spear and Jackson teams up with award-winning garden and landscape designer, Lee Bestall
- A review of 2017
- Festive foliage: Top 10 evergreens
- Winners of the Northern Design Awards 2017
- Bare Root Hedging
- The topic of trees
- Using Plants for Form in the Garden
- Showtime Comes To A Close
- Bulbs for Naturalising
- Pittosporum
- Irrigation and Water in the garden
- My five favourite evergreen shrubs for topiary
- Britain’s rising demand for ‘granny plants’
- Designer difference
- Love Pittosporum tobaria
- Lupin ‘Rachel de Thame’
- Bedding plants are back!
- 500 years of Covent Garden
- Yorkshire at Chelsea 2017
- Hardy plants for a shady garden
- Dual purpose trees
- Prune for colourful Cornus
- Why has my Box plant turned orange?
- Pruning and Planting this Spring
- Bring the Garden Indoors to Celebrate Winter
- Planting A Succession Of Bulbs
- Autumn lawn care
- Late Summer Colour
- Chelsea Flower Show preview 2016
- Do I need permission to prune or cut down my tree? Tree preservation orders
- Now you Sedum … now you don’t!
- Automated lawn mowers
- Sarcococca – The Christmas Box
- Mistletoe at Christmas
- Caring for Poinsettia
- Top Tips for your Perfect Christmas Tree
- The beauty of Wisteria
- Evening scented plants
- Inula helenium
- Garden for Hay fever sufferers
- Edible ornamentals
- Physocarpus
- Ornamental crab apple trees
- Outdoor kitchen in your garden
- Stunning Verbena ‘Lollipop’
- Plant layering in Key West
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- British Association of Landscape Industries Show Feature, Tatton Park Flower Show 2022
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- BBC Radio Stoke Garden Chatsworth 2019
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- Carr Road, Cambridge
- Chatsworth Flower Show 2018
- Bay Tree Farm, Harrogate
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- The Vicarage, Linton
- Chatsworth Flower Show 2017
- Swiftedge Farm, Huddersfield
- Nyetimber, Covent Garden 2017
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- Harrogate Town Centre
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