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Eco Friendly Garden Furniture for Kids

Fair-weather play dates come and go, but notNeutral’s outdoor kids furniture will hold steadfast, rain or shine. A collaboration with Loll Designs, the BBO2 collection comprises 100 percent recycled post-consumer high-density polyethylene (HDPE), a plastic resin used to make products

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Modern Play Shed

Taking a look at sheds and childrens play houses, these are cool!! Studio G – Garden Design & Landscape Design inspiration » Create a Modern Play Shed.

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How To: Make A Wildflower Meadow

We are looking forward to installing our first wildflower lawn, and though we had planned to have one installed in our upcoming Glasgow west end design our clients have opted to do this themselves as part of their ongoing gardening

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Daybeds: Great Garden Furniture

These fantastic garden daybeds certainly inspire us to design gardens to put them in and I’m hoping that by showing them here as demonstrated at FreshHome they might inspire you guys to get us to draft you up some fantastic

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Great Garden Design Ideas #2

Second in a series of blog posts showcasing some of the great ideas out there that help inspire our garden designs and will inspire you to get design motivated!!

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Recycled Chairs to Fab Garden Bench

One of my favourite websites: here’s an idea we can all try out!! Studio G – Garden Design & Landscape Design inspiration » Before and After: Recycled Chairs to Fab Garden Bench.

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Garden Safety for Children’s Play and Learning

If like me you’ve got kids and you’ve got a garden that you like to keep looking good, then you’ll no doubt be wondering how the two will get on with another.  The Kids Garden website has a guide on

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Bags of Colour for the Garden

Do you remember those retro beanbags from the 1960’s?  Well, Fatboy, a company started in 1998 by Jukka Setälä in Finland, designs beanbags for the 21st century.  Depending on your mood, Fatboy has 11 different styles and colours to satisfy

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Nicky’s Top Tips: The Monkey Puzzle Tree

The monkey-puzzle tree (Araucaria araucana) is like Fugu; when handled the wring way it can be lethal! Today I had to learn how to trans-plant one without cutting myself to ribbons!

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Cairns for the Garden

If you’ve been out and about in the rugged countryside of Britain you’ll perhaps have spied a cairn or two on your travels.  These beautiful dry-stone sculputures are often built as memorials but are also used to mark other occassional

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