Considering the area was practically a car park before hand, virtually just a concrete base, i think my design will really turn the space into a use-able garden and mirror Moyra’s style while giving the established and impressive town-house a worthy extension!
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Glasgow West Garden Design: Contemporary City Oasis
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Posted in Garden Design Portfolio Series
Indoor Wall-Tiles with a Difference
At GardenImprovements.com we are constantly striving to convince people to introduce their gardens into their normal lifestyle habits:
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Posted in Ideas for the Garden
Composting Your Own – What to Know
Here’s some handy hints on getting started with composting delivered by Margaret Hoyenga over @ Nest In Style. Good luck and let us know how you get on!! Nicky Patterson, Designer @ Gardenimprovements.com
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Posted in Ideas for the Garden, Nicky's Garden Tips
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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Posted in Ideas for the Garden
Eat From Your Very Own Kitchen Garden!!
Green, Lean and Credit Chrunchy – Have your own kitchen garden!! We are offering to design and build a kitchen garden for your garden in January or February 2009 for a credit CRUNCHILY friendly 20% off both drawings and labour!!
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Posted in Promotions and Client Information
Garden Design Issues: An Apprentice’s View
When Nicky informed me that i would be sending off my own design and presentation I was a tad nervous about the outcome to say the least! It didn’t help that the garden I would be designing for was a very strange shape and quite large. When doing practise designs I found it alot easier to come up with ideas for smaller gardens, so this was the first stumbling block!
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Posted in Industry Comment
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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Posted in Ideas for the Garden
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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Posted in Ideas for the Garden
Landscape Gardening and Winter
The winter months are infact the best time to arrange to have a landscaping project scheduled for your garden; ensuring everything is in place for the new season to start and getting a real head start on enjoying your home outdoors!
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Posted in Industry Comment, Promotions and Client Information
Landscaping in 2009?
Having read some of the many articles on the effects of the credit crunch on small businesses, I wonder how it will affect my small business and how other garden designers and landscapers around Glasgow, and indeed around the UK, will cope with the coming year.Read more ›
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