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- Category: From The Garden
- Best ground cover plants: The humble primrose
- What is Rewilding?
- In a pot or in the ground? Part 3: How to make a resilient container garden
- In a pot or in the ground? Part 2: How to plant in the ground in hard landscape areas
- In a pot or in the ground? Part 1: The problem with pots and why lifting slabs may be the answer
- How Can I Encourage Pollinating Insects Into My Garden?
- How Much Does A Garden Designer Cost?
- How to Commission a Garden Sculpture: The Ultimate Guide
- What Should I Expect During the Garden Design Process?
- What is Brownfield gardening?
- The Best Plants To Attract Bees To Your Garden
- How Can I Design a Low-Maintenance Garden?
- What Services Do Garden Designers Offer?
- How to look after my new lawn
- What Does Chop And Drop Mean? Is It A Good Solution?
- Top 10 Best Garden Designers & Landscapers In The UK
- Sculpting serenity: 5 garden sculpture ideas to elevate your outdoor space
- Should I reduce the size of my lawn?
- Why Rendered Garden Walls Aren’t For Everyone
- Should I install an Irrigation System in my Garden?
- 10 Reasons why you should get a water feature
- How to Kill Box Tree Caterpillar
- 10 Reasons you shouldn’t install a water feature
- Do I Need a Garden Designer?
- How to care for herbaceous perennials
- Why is my Taxus turning brown?
- What is the best plant for hedging and topiary?
- How to Grow Wisteria & How to Prune Wisteria
- How to look after my Wisteria
- Five outdoor kitchen ideas for summer 2024
- Ten Nightmare Perennial Weeds Common in Britain
- 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
- Does My Apple Tree 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
- Which is the best plant identification App?
- 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
- Hellebores | The best plant for shade
- How to design a garden for a changing world
- How to Design an Accessible Garden
- What are the best gardening podcasts?
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Are black plastic pots a thing of the past?
- 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
- 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’
- 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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Projects
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- River Cottage, Sheffield
- Millenium Place, Sheffield
- George Street, Cheshire
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- The Journey To Work
- Chelsea Flower Show 2015
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- Outdoor Events
- British Association of Landscape Industries Show Feature, Tatton Park Flower Show 2022
- Lockside Show Garden | Tatton Park Flower Show 2022
- Literally Littoral Show Garden | Tatton Park Flower Show 2022
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- Eaton Place, Huddersfield
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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
- Chelsea Flower Show 2017
- Sir Simon Milton Foundation Garden, Chelsea 2016
- Alder Farm Barn, Northampton
- Croft Lane, York
- Holymoorside, Derbyshire
- Harrogate Flower Show 2015
- Oval Barns, Dore
- Viewlands, Barnsley
- Harrogate Town Centre
- Rowsley, Derbyshire
- Feng Shui Garden, Yorkshire