Successful Garden Design Blog
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Here you will find articles on how to design and plant your garden to make the most of your available space & budget. Rachel Mathews is a garden designer from the UK, with over 25 years of professional design experience. In that time, she has designed hundreds of gardens all over the world.
Successful Garden Design Blog
1M ago
It’s a hard life being a teenager these days…!
Sign up for a proper full-length garden design class here: https://www.successfulgardendesigner.com/free-classes ..read more
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2M ago
How to design a Piet Oudolf inspired planting plan in a small garden…
Garden Rant article: https://gardenrant.com/2024/01/wild-ish-at-heart-naturalistic-planting-design.html
Piet’s work on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/pietoudolf ..read more
Successful Garden Design Blog
3M ago
Rachel used Abies noblis, tree ivy, Viburnum tinus flowers, and eucalyptus bark for this arrangement with a natural beeswax candle ..read more
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5M ago
Introducing the whirlwind that is Deb! She wizzed through the Small Garden Design Formula course at incredible speed! I’ll now pass you over to her so she can tell you in her own words what she did with her daughter’s garden…
Why do the course?
The objective was to have my daughter’s garden landscaped, she moved into a new house on a new development summer 2023 and so had the obligatory turfed back garden.
The reasons for choosing the course with Successful Garden Design was as follows –
No garden designers seemed interested in a small garden project (10m x8m).
Those who were interested were ..read more
Successful Garden Design Blog
5M ago
14 years of Successful Garden Design student gardens condensed into 14 mins!
Take advantage of our 14-year anniversary courses sale here: https://www.successfulgardendesigner.com/14
Until Wednesday 1st November ..read more
Successful Garden Design Blog
5M ago
Here are the results from Rachel’s electroculture and JADAM vegetable growing experiments
14th year anniversary sale – grab a bargain & help fund Rachel’s garden room project ..read more
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6M ago
14th Anniversary Garden Design Course SALE: https://www.successfulgardendesigner.com/14
If you’d like to DONATE to Rachel’s Garden Sauna Fund you can do so here! https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/rachelsauna Thank you!
Garden Saunas https://gardensauna.co.uk ..read more
Successful Garden Design Blog
7M ago
How to tackle a garden plot that’s overrun with weeds in a way that works with nature!
For FREE online garden design classes goto: https://www.successfulgardendesigner.com/free-classes ..read more
Successful Garden Design Blog
8M ago
How to know how water retentive & nutritious your soil is.
SGD reader, Valerie, asked me how does she know about her soil. Here was my reply:
The darker the colour of the soil the more nutrient-rich it is.
To see how well-drained it is, dig a few test holes to a spade’s depth and then fill with water and see how long it holds water – if it immediately disappears then you probably have a sandy soil that dries out quickly. You will need to add plenty of organic matter to help it retain water.
If the water just sits there and doesn’t drain then it’s got a high clay content – too much clay is ..read more
Successful Garden Design Blog
8M ago
I love the late summer months, as the tone begins to change to more russet shades – it’s like the ‘wind down’ to Autumn! However, all does not need to fade.
There is still plenty of room for colour in the late summer months – it just depends on how vibrant you want to go! My combination chosen here, is quietly subtle; with fabulous foliage and a splash of white for a late summer lift.
Hyelotelephium (was Sedum) Autumn Joy
The fleshy mounds of succulent Hyelotelephium (Sedum) leaves are great, structurally, in a garden; front of the border. They are a ‘solid-looking’ plant, with real ground ..read more