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Garden Design Issues: An Apprentice’s View

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Matthew Thomson — No Comments ↓

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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Daybeds: Great Garden Furniture

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Nicky Patterson — No Comments ↓

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

Glasgow South: Busby Garden Design Film

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Nicky Patterson — No Comments ↓

Here is the completed project with plants from Matt’s small garden design in Busby from earlier this year; the second in our YouTube series! Let us know what you think! To see a commentary of the design process for this…

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Bags of Colour for the Garden

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Matthew Thomson — No Comments ↓

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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