Sustainable gardening

  • Lawn renovation

    Lawn renovation How to bring a tired, patchy lawn back to life Most domestic lawns need renovation work at some point. Compaction, moss, thinning grass, bare patches and weed pressure are the usual issues, and they almost always come down to the same underlying problems: poor drainage, the wrong cutting regime, insufficient feeding, or shade…

  • Evergreen structures

    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

    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

    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

    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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