Tag Archive: garden design

May 07

The “Life’s A Beach” Garden and The Wave Garden Design, Neilston, Renfrewshire

Presentation of garden design for client in Neilston near Paisley in Renfrewshire, produced by UK Landscape Designer Nicky Patterson, based in Glasgow: all enquiries to http://www.gardenimprovements.com Design brief: Front garden: remove all hedging and shrubbery and offer a lower maintenance solution. Back garden: Remove hedges and shed, replace fences (and LHS hedge) with better quality …

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Feb 20

Press Coverage for Nicky and GardenImprovements.com

Margaret's garden lacked any real functionality or user pleasure

You may have been fortunate enough to catch our superstar Designer and Landscaper Nicky Patterson on a live TV makeover last week. Here’s how it all happened!

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Feb 20

Portable Wood Burning Spa

Via the team at SpotCoolStuff: These hot-tubs are portable and look like great fun!  A little expensive though at around £3500+ but a cool idea non-the-less!  Check them out: A Review of the Dutchtub Portable Wood Burning Spa | Spot Cool Stuff: Design.

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Feb 20

Great Garden Design Ideas #1

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

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Feb 20

Indoor Gardens with Lightpot

Indoor plants are nothing new of course but here’s a pretty cool idea I saw at Just Cool Design: The “lightpot” from designers Kfir Schwalb and Orit Magia of Studio Shulab . It uses eco friendly, energy saving LED lighting to grow plants, herbs – any pot adaptable vegetation anywhere in the house. And no …

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Feb 15

We’re gearing up for 2010

Garden January 2010

Well our 2009 garden building year was cut a week short by the snow and ice and we have had an extended break over winter of 4 weeks!  We are champing at the bit and raring to go for 2010, only as we return to work today we find everything still covered in 4 inches …

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Feb 15

Modern Trellis Design for the Garden

A fantastic design for a modern garden trellis by Jayme Jenkins as seen at Nest in Style: Using steel wires this trellis is especially useful as an invisible or floating trellis for a modern or contemporary garden design where traditional trellis styles might conflict with the overall concept.  Here you can see the effect and …

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Feb 15

Gabions : Cheap Retaining and Other Garden Features

A fantastic article from the Studio G team on the many uses of gabion boxes in garden design and landscaping projects.  We used a similar idea on a garden design in Anniesland; after seeing this I think I might use them again soon! Studio G – Garden Design & Landscape Design inspiration » All About …

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Feb 15

Inspired by:: Artist Jack Frame

There is nothing quite as exciting, for me as a designer, to see one of my completed gardens be confetti strewn by a celebratory blossom tree as it heralds in the warmer weather of a summer.

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Feb 15

Great Garden Umbrellas and Parasols

A funky and modern twist on the traditional garden parasol design: these can be used when the garden design is such that a traditional umbrella structured parasol might compromise the overall theme of the space. Coolaroo Shade Sails are bold, brightly colored in square and triangle shapes. It’s remarkable how one lone shade sail can …

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