Category: Creative Maintenance
Our Box Alternatives
23/05/2024 | Architectural Plants
The demise of Box. We are an indomitable lot we gardeners, and once the inevitable has been recognised there are alternatives. So if you are looking for advice and guidance to help find a suitable Box replacement, read on……
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Plants For New Homes: Part 2
23/10/2023 | Architectural Plants
Plants For New Homes: Part 2 Forward Thinking With Forms: Topiary Trees Here in Part 2, we’ll talk about 5 of the must-have topiary trees which are perfect for new gardens. In Part 1 of our ‘Plants For New Homes’ guide we looked at a number of starter plants that could handle most of the…
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Plants For New Homes: Part 1
23/10/2023 | Architectural Plants
Plants For New Homes: Part 1 Instant Impact: Dramatic, Hardy & Easy To Care For Congratulations! At last, you’re into your new home. As you pause among the unpacking to look through a window into your new garden space, the odds are you’re confronted with a blank square of new turf or a muddled landscape…
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Courtyard & Mezzanine Design
07/07/2023 | Architectural Plants
Guy’s Courtyard & Mezzanine Design Ilex crenata ‘Niwaki’, Olea europaea and our homegrown Ilex perado making a bold structural impression here in Guy’s courtyard and mezzanine design. Perfect specimens for planters or big pots. Olives are invariably grown in Mediterranean climates throughout the world as fruit trees and therefore they always have their branches cut…
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Mediterranean Garden Design
27/07/2022 | Architectural Plants
Garden Design, Planting & Plants By Us Mediterranean Border Design Designed by Guy, this bold and architectural fusion of Mediterranean and native plants forms a dramatic sculptural border: Cupressus sempervirens ‘Pyramidalis’ (Italian Cypress) under planted with a blobbery of our Taxus Baccata (Yew) & Viburnum tinus (Laurustinus). The stems of the Cupressus have been raised…
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