The most pleasing gardens complement their natural surroundings, connecting effortlessly with the landscape. Our gardens should provide a tranquil space to enjoy, a haven from the outside world where you can sit and watch the world go by at its own natural pace. A well planned garden should reflect your own personality and particular needs as well as blending seamlessly into your local environment. Here at Wild to Wonderful, we advise our customers on how to create a garden that fits READ MORE
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Brightening a small area with pots
Even if you only have a small garden or no space for a border in your garden, you can still create a beautiful effect using pots. You can use bright colours to add a splash of colour to a dull corner or use more subtle cooling green foliage for a cooling effect, and also add scent and height to otherwise flat or featureless areas. Either groupings of pots of different shapes and sizes or just one large feature pot, whichever takes your fancy! And of course, you can move them around READ MORE
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A Wild to Wonderful Garden – A Client’s Perspective
(3rd blog in a series of 4) The plant/herb shopping trip stage of Lindsay’s Garden Pond Project We are now three quarters of the way through our joint project on my garden pond area. Out with the dreary, weedy and uninspiring descriptors for my pond, and in with words such as enlightened, uplifting, inspiring, weed-free and eye-catching! Herb & plant shopping Last Friday was the herb and plant shopping stage of my garden pond project. READ MORE
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A Wild to Wonderful Garden – A Client’s Perspective
(2nd blog in a series of 4) The removal, renovation and replanting stage of Lindsay’s Garden Pond Project For those of you who saw Wild to Wonderful’s blog last month, you will know that Cathy Cornish is working on what was my rather dreary, weedy and uninspiring garden pond area. The view to my pond from the dining room table made my heart sink. Cathy came to my rescue with a planting scheme to use existing resources from around the garden to give this area a new, colourful READ MORE
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