Garden Tour: A Dazzlingly Colourful Outdoor Living Room

Garden Tour: A Dazzlingly Colourful Outdoor Living Room

The designer of this garden, which sets sculptural plants against vibrant backdrops, was inspired by Mexico Visitors to this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show enjoyed an award-winning and colourful design, dramatically different from any other garden at the 2017 show....
Christmas wish list for gardeners

Christmas wish list for gardeners

With the festive season fast approaching, inspired by Grow, the lifestyle show for gardeners, Manoj Malde of Couture Gardens has put together this Christmas wish list.   Every year this show takes place in the trendy area of Hampstead. Since the show started it...
GROWING YOUR OWN BOUQUET

GROWING YOUR OWN BOUQUET

  ‘Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul.’ The Koran There is a revival of growing your own – fruits, vegetables and herbs, but also flowers to dress your home. More and more people are starting to keep a cutting patch in their garden or...
Low Maintenance Gardens

Low Maintenance Gardens

LOW MAINTENANCE GARDEN Many people these days are time poor. If they have a garden, they want to spend limited amount of time working on it but maximum time enjoying their outdoor space. Architectural gardens can be high maintenance. They need to look manicured at all...
HERBACEOUS PEONIES

HERBACEOUS PEONIES

  Peonies are the cream cakes of the flowering world ‘naughty but nice’ and no classic English border should be without them. Peonies do not tolerate waterlogged soil but will do well in clay soil so long as they have good drainage. Start with bare root plants...
WINTER GARDENS

WINTER GARDENS

We all suffer the winter blues. We look outside and every thing seems dull and dreary. It does not have to be that way. By selecting the right plants, we can add structure, form and colour in the garden. Evergreen plants such as Fastigiate Yew, Holly and Pittosporum...