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Brilliantly simple design tips for gardens that are on a slope

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Front Gardens - are not a small version of the back garden

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How to design Odd Shaped Gardens

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How to design a rectangular or square shaped garden

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How does a garden become family-friendly?

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Garden Styling - How to Choose the Right One

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How do you choose the design layout for a garden?

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Why does everyone think having a beautiful garden means more work?

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If you're going to design your garden - Don't do this!

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You don't need to become a gardener to have an amazing garden

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What's wrong with Orange!

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Gardening's going 'Up the Wall'

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Are your garden boundaries barriers?

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Trend-setting ideas for 2023

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Transform your idea of a garden layout - go reverse!

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Become a garden referee - you'll be happier if you do!

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It's time to think about lawns!

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The RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2023

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What's best - a landscape gardener or garden designer?

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Help - I just don't know where to start!

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Why garden design goes wrong

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How your garden can tap into the Internet of Life for free

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Garden design; what everyone should think about .... but don't!

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A Beginners Guide to Designing Big Gardens

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How to choose a garden colour scheme

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Growing a Grass Garden - do you Xeriscape?

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5 Top Tips to make Garden Borders Better

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The best small garden design tips from 2022

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What to learn from the RHS Garden Shows in 2022

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Easy low maintenance garden ideas

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A Word about Weeds!

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How can you take stop the world 'outside' ruining your enjoyment of the garden

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How to make a garden when if its a really weird or wonky shaped space

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What is Shade and how does it affect your Garden?

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Garden Design Tips for Gardens that aren't flat.

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How to make long narrow gardens feel wider than they are

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How to Design a Garden If: Its wider than it's long!

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Top Tips to transform your balcony into the perfect aerial garden

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Do you live behind a big green wall?

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First ever garden? What design priorities should you think about

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What makes any garden 'family friendly?'

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Why is garden designing so expensive and does it need to be?

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Garden Trends for 2022 - what should you be doing in your garden?

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Some brilliant new ideas that help make your garden better for 2022 and beyond!

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'Up the Wall' Gardening

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Best Unsung Garden Plants

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How to be a better gardener part 2

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How to be a better gardener part 1

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Why gardens are really really good for you!

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Why can't flower shows think like IKEA!

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Deconstructing Your Garden - why you don't need to think like a gardener!

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And the best garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower show was actually....!

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Why gardens don't work - some common design mistakes to avoid

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Hurrah, The Plotting Shed is Back - have you missed us? :)

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Hampton Court Flower Show - The Good; The Bad and the Unrealisitc!

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RHS Show Gardens and why you shouldn't try copy them

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RHS Hampton Court Flower Show - We Came, We Saw, We Thought... !

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Why are gardens boring???

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A brilliantly simple border planning method to get your planting right

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Informal Gardens and how you can make one

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What actually is a Contemporary Garden - and why do you want one?

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How to Maximise Space in a Small Garden

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How to make your garden FEEL bigger than it is

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Designing a Garden around problems you can't change!

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NEW SERIES - Can anyone design a garden? Well, the answer has to be yes!

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Inside the Mind of a Garden Design part 6 - Muddled Gardens 2

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Inside the Mind of a Garden Design part 5 - Muddled Gardens 1

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Inside the Mind of a Garden Design part 4 - Formal Gardens

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Inside the Mind of a Garden Design part 3 - Creating Impactful Borders

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Inside the mind of a Garden Design part 2 - Suburban Gardens...

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Inside the Mind of a Garden Design - Shallow Sloping Gardens

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5 simple changes to make a garden interesting

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Plan for the worst....

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Trees, just how smart are they?

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How to 'do' Garden Mirrors - properly

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7 Simple Rules of Garden Design

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Designing a front garden

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What should a garden do?

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This could be the best gardening book you'll ever buy

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Should you water your garden?

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If you haven't got a view - what do you do?

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I Want to Like my Garden - how to make your garden better

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Make your garden great again

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Plan for Debris!

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Is the drive for perfection killing us?

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The non-Gardeners guide to the world's best plants

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Plants to avoid if you don't like gardening

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How your gardening habits should change to make your life easier & the world a better place

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Gardening in the 2020's and beyond

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5 easy ways to love your garden more

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Boring Gardens and how to avoid them (part 2)

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Boring Gardens & how to avoid them (part 1)

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If butterflies could vote, would your garden win?

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INside the Mind of a Garden Design - Asymmetric gardens

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Gardens, play space or interesting space

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Which houseplant absorbs more CO2 than any other - clean air anyone?

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Nature should not stop at the garden fence

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Decorative Stone Mulches - and other gardening mistakes

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How to Create a more Tranquil Garden

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Urban Gardening - how to make the most of your small city garden