Soft Landscaping...
Below are our articles on the subject of Soft Landscaping. If you can't see what you are looking for our other categories are displayed on the left under 'Our Quick Links'...
Choosing and Using Roses
Roses have enjoyed a long and deserved reputation amongst both gardeners and poets through the ages – offering a bewildering diversity of colours, shapes, forms and...
Ground Cover for Low Maintenance Gardens
Although carpeting the ground with dense groupings of low-growing plants is principally about reducing the amount of weeding needed to keep beds...
Herbaceous Planting
Well chosen herbaceous planting brings a splash of colour to the garden and with a huge array of candidates for sale in the average garden centre, you are likely to be...
Large Area Garden Landscaping
Most of the time when we think about landscape gardening we're thinking of ordinary gardens, the type that any normal family would have behind their house. But there...
Laying Turf in Your Garden
A well-maintained lawn can make a major contribution to any garden and whether you are starting a-fresh, or replacing an existing poor quality patch of grass, turf...
Planting for Structure, Shape and Form
Plants for the garden tend to get chosen for the colour of their flowers, foliage or berries, but this is far from the only thing you might want to...
Planting for Year-Round Interest
Although gardens are inevitably at their peak and most showy during the period from late spring through to mid- to late summer, with a little planning, it should be...
The Principles of Planting
Whatever the size of a landscaping job – from simply redeveloping an uninspiring or under-used corner to planning a whole new garden from scratch – once you have...
Turf or Seed for a New Lawn?
Lawns have been a focal point for landscape gardening for centuries, whether they are neatly striped, billiard-table flat lawns behind a house or the rolling...
Using Climbing Plants
Whether grown over a trellis or pergola, against the house itself or used to scramble over an unsightly wall or fence, climbers bring a touch of the dramatic to the...
Using Hedges and Screens
Long established as features of the British countryside and gardens, hedging forms an important element of the structure and character of the overall design. If your...
Using Plants for Colour and Texture
Working with the colour and texture of the huge variety of plants available is one of the fundamentals of garden design – and one of the most effective ways to...
Using Shrubs to Full Effect
Shrubs form the backbone of the planting design, their architectural forms and enduring interest playing an important role in setting the overall tone of the whole...
Using Trees in the Garden
When it comes to adding height, structure and a point of interest to the landscape, there is nothing to beat a tree. Whether it’s a stand of mature, native broad-leafs...
Working with Lawns and Grassland
Grass is such a well established feature of gardens that it can often be almost invisible – overlooked, except when it becomes necessary to roll out the lawn-mower...
