Garden Design Ideas

Find garden design ideas and inspiration for planting schemes, garden structures and features, hard landscaping materials and outdoor entertaining areas that will meet with the approval of even the most discerning family member.

Useful advice from garden design experts on creating an outdoor space that is usable, beautiful and practical from the coldest Winter months to the hottest days of Summer.

Create a garden for all the senses

1st November 2023
Reading time 6 minutes

Gardens have long been a place of solace and rejuvenation, providing a connection to nature that soothes the soul. But what if you could take how you experience your garden to the next level by creating a sensory garden? Sensory gardens combine features, plants, surfaces and objects to stimulate all 5 of our senses –

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Create a garden for all the senses

How to create an accessible garden

29th September 2023
Reading time 9 minutes

Gardens play such an important part in our lives. They give us the means to extend our living space and offer a place to relax and improve our health and well-being. With such a critical role, it’s important everyone can access and enjoy them.  Creating an accessible garden allows anyone, no matter their age or

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How to create an accessible garden

Get The Most From a Large Garden

31st May 2023
Reading time 7 minutes

If you’re blessed with a large garden it can sometimes be a daunting task to know where to start in a garden transformation. Often, large gardens can resemble open playing fields with a vast patch of grass in the middle surrounded by trees and shrubs. This layout makes the whole garden feel exposed and a

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Get The Most From a Large Garden

4 ways to blur the lines between your home and garden

29th April 2022
Reading time 6 minutes

One of the biggest trends in home renovations in recent years is the installation of large glass walls or big bi-fold doors. And no wonder when you consider the benefits.  The uninterrupted views help to extend your indoor space into the outdoors – making your home feel larger and more open. The landscape you look

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4 ways to blur the lines between your home and garden

What’s inspiring us at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2021

21st September 2021
Reading time 6 minutes

Wow, it’s only day two of watching the 2021 RHS Chelsea Flower Show but already there’s been so much to inspire us. From the large show gardens to the smaller more intimate balcony gardens, we’re already spotting ideas that can easily translate into our own homes. Here’s a roundup of what’s been catching our eye

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What’s inspiring us at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2021

Escape to the Mediterranean

2nd August 2021
Reading time 3 minutes

With the UK travel traffic light system firmly in place, many people are not willing to take the risk of travelling afar. So what can you do when you crave a summer escape, without the hassle of tests, airport queues and quarantine? For the solution you need look no further than your own back garden.

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Escape to the Mediterranean

The Rise of Vertical Gardening

22nd May 2020
Reading time 6 minutes

Small spaces are proving creative outlets for keen gardeners during lockdowns. Tiny gardens, petite patios and bijou balconies are all receiving green makeovers to create oasis of calm for some much-needed escape. Using containers and pots has traditionally been the way to pack a small plot with plants. But a the growing trend for vertical

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The Rise of Vertical Gardening

Garden fence or hedge? Considering your options.

2nd March 2020
Reading time 5 minutes

Fences and hedges are the most popular ways of defining property boundaries. When we buy a house we generally find there are already hedges or fences in place and we don’t give them any further thought beyond giving the hedge an annual trim or replacing a broken fence panel after a particularly nasty storm. But

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Garden fence or hedge? Considering your options.

How To Create A Child Friendly Garden That You – And Your Kids – Will Love!

25th June 2019
Reading time 3 minutes

As a good proportion of us at Thames Valley Landscapes are parents, we’ve first-hand experience into how difficult it is to convince our kids to get outside and reclaim their rightful space in nature.  Yet we also notice that, once they’re out in the great outdoors, they quickly reconnect with the elements and start enjoying

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How To Create A Child Friendly Garden That You – And Your Kids – Will Love!