Designing Low-Maintenance Gardens For Retired Adults
Gardening in Retirement Designing low maintenance gardens for retired adults doesn’t mean sacrificing beauty or enjoyment. An estimated 27 million people in the UK are involved in gardening and the activity remains a popular hobby for the British who are rightly proud of their green spaces. As a garden designer and landscape gardener, it’s not […]
A Rabbit Proof Garden
Making your Garden A Rabbit-Proof Zone Rabbits are some of the cutest creatures to grace our fields, ahem, and in my case garden. The problem with having a colony of rabbits in situ is their voracious appetite for most things green. If you have rabbits in your garden you’ll have to forget about planting anything […]
Blossom in the Garden
Five Great Trees for Spring Blossom This is a glorious time of year for gardening and landscaping. The first heralds of spring, Snowdrops, are over for this year but trees and hedges are coming alive with gorgeous blossom. There are plenty of trees to choose from to adorn your garden this spring but we’ve narrowed […]
A Garden For All Seasons
A standard excuse that we gardeners use to visitors is that the garden was looking better last week or will look better in the summer, spring… or any other time except now. Most of us have gardens that have peaks and troughs throughout the year, we might have concentrated too hard on that spring bulb […]
Could You Benefit From A “Greener” Garden?
“Green” Gardening Fundamentally, for us at Oxford landscaping and design, “going green” – or rather becoming more eco-friendly – means striving to be in harmony with nature. Eco-gardening is the practice of maintaining a chemical free garden; growing your plants organically and providing the most natural environment for them to flourish as possible. These efforts […]
Giving a Brand New Look To An Old Patio
Time to get out and about in the garden Around 40% of people in the UK spend only 15 minutes outdoors each day, putting their physical and mental health at risk. The situation is as dire for children as for adults, with one 2016 finding that 75% of British children spend less time outside than confined adults. […]
Making Wildlife Welcome in the Garden
Making your Garden Attractive to Wildlife Last week I learnt a particularly painful lesson. I broke my finger in a futile bid to chase away one of the numerous visiting rabbits in my garden. The war to protect my precious flowers has been lost. Peace has been officially declared. This experience has left me in […]
April: The Busiest Month in the Garden
Of all the months, April is the one in which the garden changes most dramatically. Things suddenly begin to look green and vibrant and the warmer days and lighter evenings gladden the heart of every gardener. So, it’s time to shake off the winter blues and get stuck into the shrubbery. This is the busiest […]