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Boggy Blogging from Nicky and the Team @ GardenImprovements.com
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Nov 2
You get a good buzz from finding a new shop or website or TV show or film that ticks all your boxes. In terms of garden inspiration and quirky ideas, Flora Grubb Gardens ticks our boxes! It’s thousands of miles from sunny Glasgow but can still be admired through these fantastic images from the Danger Garden blog. Check it out:danger garden: Flora Grubb Gardens.
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Oct 23
Some more exciting inspiration from Studio G – this time an article on the work of Brendan Moar…I love this tunnel idea. Fantastic work:Studio G – Garden Design & Landscape Design inspiration » Brendan Moar’s Dry Spell Gardens.
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Oct 12
One of my very favourite garden designers is Diarmuid Gavin – his ability to think beyond the normal contexts of traditional gardens is what made me want to become a garden designer. The summer house in this design is fantastic and it makes an otherwise simple garden seem very special!
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Super Sheds: Coming to Your Backyard Soon : TreeHugger
Filed under Ideas for the Garden, Influence and InspirationOct 2
If you have one, I know you love your shed. You might not think it, know it or say it…but deep down you really cannot do without it! Yours may be a handsome new shed, still proud in its newly treated timber – it reminds you of log cabins and Swedish saunas and you treat it like a grown-up Wendy house…sort of! It might be a dilapidated old shack, creaking with character and woodlice – you run a gauntlet of HUGE spiders and webs to get the rusty old garden shears every summer, cursing as some old tin of paint or a lawnmower blade whacks you shin on the way past! Either way, you love it. You might think, know or say you hate it – but you don’t. Read the rest of this entry »Tagged as: garden architects, garden designer, garden designer ayrshire, garden designer clarkston, garden designer east kilbride, garden designer glasgow, garden designer newton mearns, garden designer paisley, garden designer scotland, garden designer southside, garden designer west end, garden makeovers, garden makeovers scotland, Garden Shed, gardenimprovements.com, landscape contractors, landscape design, landscaper, landscaper ayrshire, landscaper clarkston, landscaper designer glasgow, landscaper east kilbride, landscaper newton mearns, landscaper paisley, landscaper scotland, landscaper southside, landscaper west end, nicky patterson -
Jul 16
Check these sheds out – Disco shed is a winner for me!!
Shed of the Year Competition Winner Announced : TreeHugger
Cheers
Nicky @ GardenImprovements.com
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Mar 19
Introducing our newest blogging author Matthew Thomson; also a trainee garden designer and a landscaper, whose recent experience at an introductory meeting with the Glasgow Guerilla Gardeners has indeed left him inspired and keen to spread the good word.by Matthew Thomson Read the rest of this entry »
