Sustainable gardening

  • Lawn renovation and seeding

    ByCraig Davis

    Lawn renovation and seeding How to bring a tired lawn back, or sow a new one that lasts Updated October 2026 Most lawns we look at across Kingston, Surbiton and the wider Surrey area have the same complaints: moss, thin patches, compaction, weeds and grass that gives up in shade. They nearly always come back…

  • Evergreen structures

    ByCraig Davis

    Evergreen structure How to give your garden shape and structure all year round. Evergreen structure is the quiet architecture of a garden. It is the backbone that stays standing through winter storms, summer heat and all the in-between months. When perennials retreat and grasses collapse, it is the evergreens that hold everything together and stop…

  • Small gardens

    ByCraig Davis

    Small gardens Big ideas for making the most of a small garden. In London and its suburbs, gardens are precious spaces. They may be getting smaller, but ambitions for them are not. A modern garden needs to be a dining room, a lounge, a playground and a tranquil escape, all within a compact footprint. The…

  • Low maintenance garden

    ByCraig Davis

    Low-maintenance gardens Beautiful, lasting gardens that ask for less. Designed and planted to work with your soil, your aspect and the time you actually have. A low-maintenance garden is not a no-maintenance garden. It is a garden designed and planted so that the right things happen on their own, and the work that remains is…

  • Drought tolerant gardens

    ByCraig Davis

    Drought-tolerant gardens Plants and design principles for a garden that thrives through dry UK summers without standing over it with a hose. UK summers are getting hotter and drier. The 2022 and 2025 seasons both delivered extended drought across the south-east, and Met Office projections point firmly in the same direction. For 2026 the Royal…

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