The Edit
Our take on pairings, trends and folly in the garden!
Eyecatchers
Thoughtfully-planned gardens, both large and small, all need at least one significant vertical ornament....
Slow down! Look down
When you choose routes for your pathways, you frame views within your garden. But you can also impose subliminal speed limits upon those who will wander there....
Garden Gates: a TALE and a TEASE
Every old gate tells you tales of the past while it suggests that there’s something marvelous, just ahead....
The Magic of Woodland Gardens
Follow Simplicity and Restraint as your woodland-design principles, and you can’t go wrong....
Strictly for the Birds
Essential to ecosystems, birds feed upon insects while they also pollinate flowers…our gardens couldn’t exist without these miraculous creatures....
Bits & Bobs
While we‘re focusing upon acquiring significant architectural centerpieces for our gardens, we should also consider those little treasures that can be extracted from a rubble pile......
Steal a View
If you’re lucky enough to have a garden which overlooks somebody else’s great-looking landscape, the quickest way to capture what is famously called a “Borrowed View”......
The Power of Peekaboo
Positioning an ornament so that it’s partially hidden by foliage adds the elements of delight and drama to a garden....
Animal Instincts: Mild or Wild?
During Greece’s Hellenistic period, animals became acceptable subjects for sculptors, and ever since gardens have been graced by likenesses of non-human creatures....
Staddle Stones
A clever British farmer became weary of battling the varmints who invaded his granary....
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