Planting
Repetition Gives a Planting Border Its Rhythm
Repeating plants in a border creates visual rhythm without making every section alike. Learn how to echo shape and…
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Explore garden design through planting, layout, materials, light and the seasonal changes that reveal a space in a different way.
Materials
Gravel or Brick: Choosing a Path Surface by Its Visual Role
Compare gravel and brick path surfaces beside your planting to see how texture, pattern, light, and edging shape the…
Seasons
Before the Flower Border: The Garden's Structural Bones
Garden structure gives a border shape before flowers arrive. Learn how to plan paths, walls, and clipped forms that…
Layout
The Focal-Point Myth: A Garden Can Have More Than One Centre
A garden can have more than one focal point. Learn how to space smaller moments so the eye moves naturally instead of…
Light
A Winter Garden Seen in Silhouette
A winter garden silhouette reveals where stems, branches, and structures carry the view, helping you decide what to…
Our point of view
A garden is more than its plants.
Its paths, edges, materials and changing light all affect what we notice. We look at gardens as compositions shaped by many connected choices.