18 Tips to Start a Balcony Flower Garden | Balcony Garden Design

A garden with a restrained planting palette can be so exciting and atmospheric. Nowhere is this more true than in the case of the white garden. The limitations of choosing plants of a single colour means you can focus your attention; in fact there are so many plants out there that if you don’t have some sort of guiding principles when you set about designing your garden, you will soon be lost and overwhelmed with options.

In permaculture garden design, we often talk about the importance of taking a holistic approach. But if you are unfamiliar with this phrase, then you may question what exactly it means. 

A former AIB banker-turned-gardener says he feels “like a five-year-old getting presents” after winning a major award as well as a prestigious gold medal at the Chelsea Flower Show in London.

But there’s always more to do in other parts of the garden, too.On the list are some strategic summer pruning tasks, and a likewise strategic plan for deadheading or otherwise reducing self-sowers (like celandine poppy, Stylophorum diphyllum, above) so there’s not too much of a good thing, for instance. Plus there are perennials in need of haircuts.My friend Ken Druse, autho

Rosa ‘Boscobel’ in a walled garden in east London

Columbine, or Aquilegia, is an intriguing member of the Ranunculaceae family with exquisite petals that give it an ephemeral quality, like a briefly glimpsed hummingbird.It is an herbaceous perennial that blooms from sp

The twigs and branches you usually throw away from the garden can be pretty helpful. Wondering how? Check out these fantastic Twig Craft Ideas for Garden Design and make the best ones for yourself!

Capellagarden’s Garden For the full time gardening students at Capellagarden, the year runs from March to September.  At the start many of them may never have gardened before, but from Day 1 groups of 4 students will be given the entire responsibility for one of the rotational plots within the teaching garden.  They choose the seeds, plan the layout, prepare the soil and do the planting.  They help one another, pooling what knowledge they do have, and what they don’t know they find out by asking the tutors, or looking things up in the library.  As their confidence grows they are encouraged to experiment and push the boundaries and learn through their successes and failures. They also grow flowers for cutting, tend the orchard, help in the productive garden that feeds the school, as well as having responsibility an area of herbaceous border and doing greenhouse work.

Start with the parts of your garden you would like to change, grow the Feng Shui plants there and apply the principles given below and see how it works.

Empathy in the Flower Garden I’ve sown a mini meadow under the apple and apricot trees using the Empathy mini meadow with beneficial micorrhiza (£5.99) from Root Grow. They are the company that produce micorrhiza for use when planting. Using micorrhiza helps plants establish quickly.

In just over a week, superhero landscapers Ray & Alan have turned an area -where ill-defined borders sloped onto paths in a rather unsatisfactory manner –  into proper landscaping.  It is so exciting. As with so many things, I am wondering why I waited so long, but it did have a certain ramshackle charm that meant I kept delaying.  There have been so many positives about the experience. From my point of view it couldn’t ha

Windowsills are the best indoor spots if you wish to start a flower garden, as they receive ample sunlight and can provide your plants with good air circulation. Here are some stunning Windowsill Flower Garden Ideas for your inspiration!