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This is part 2 of our look at garden design trends for 2015. You can read part 1 here. Part …
Garden Design Trends 2015
Last year we posted a blog on Garden Design Trends for 2014. It was based on a piece in Gardens Illustrated detailing what a number of designers thought would be in vogue during the year. It is such an interesting idea we are giving it a go again this year – with the caveat that any trend in the garden is more likely to take about 15 years before it becomes popular, rather than 12 months – so you have plenty of time to learn more about the idea before trying it out. Here is a brief rundown of what …
Let Them Run Wild!
This is a guest post from the lovely garden writer Mary Hamblyn of Brookend Cottage Garden. You can also follow her here on Twitter. We are delighted that she has written a guest post for us on why children should have some wild areas in the garden. Let them run wild! For a few scary minutes this summer I lost my three year old daughter. We’d been pottering outside one minute, and she was gone the next. I scoured the garden, then the house, then the garden again. She’s quite sensible, so I was pretty sure she wouldn’t have wandered off by herself. And …
Plants for Seaside Gardens
Seaside gardens are fascinating and here at Modern Mint Garden Design we cannot wait for our first commission to work on a garden by the sea. In preparation for that moment we are trying to learn all we can about the plants that can cope with living by the seaside. Below is a document Plantlife have put together that gives great information and pictures on seaside wildflowers – easy to print off and take with you while walking along the coast too! We recently visited the West coast of Ireland to take a look at the landscape there – we saw …