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Bloomin’ marvellous after the rain – garden flowers update – Successful Garden & Lifestyle Design

Everyone (except me) is complaining about the rain, especially my Spanish rescue dog who shelters from the showers when we’re...

Chelsea Flower Show 2026 – An Alternative View – Successful Garden & Lifestyle Design

I had a completely different article lined up for this week – and then I realised, belatedly, it’s the Chelsea...

Sumptuous Season Extenders – your flower relay team – Successful Garden & Lifestyle Design

For flower lovers, especially in a small garden, it can be difficult to achieve a continual stream of them throughout...

Grow Time! Beat the incoming food hikes, attractively! – Successful Garden & Lifestyle Design

As the world gets crazier and more unpredictable by the day, there are still some certainties (other than death and...

Happy New (Real) Year – especially for your garden! – Successful Garden & Lifestyle Design

If you’re someone who makes New Year resolutions in January – how long did they last? Trying to “start afresh”...

New Year, New Start for Successful Garden Design – Successful Garden & Lifestyle Design

After much deliberation and thanks to an overwhelming number of emails when I announced shutting my company down, and people really...

October in my garden – Successful Garden & Lifestyle Design

A while back I wrote an article on planting combinations for October. It featured some hot oranges to pick up...

Space-Boosting Design Tips – Successful Garden & Lifestyle Design

Small gardens can be just as stunning and functional as larger ones, if you know a few clever tricks! Whether your...

2 Glorious garden tours – Isle of Wight – Successful Garden & Lifestyle Design

Technically, I was on holiday but, of course, the garden designer within couldn’t miss the opportunity to photograph gardens when...

Jean’s Garden & our 15 Year Anniversary! – Successful Garden & Lifestyle Design

This is Successful Garden Design student Jean’s garden. The garden isn’t finished yet, there are still the plants to go...

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How to Grow and Care for Creeping Phlox

Both are such similar plants that they are often confused. If I really had to choose between the two, I’d say P. subulata might just...

Planting, Care, and Harvest Guide

Sharing is caring! Yardlong beans — also called asparagus beans — are one of the easiest and most productive vegetables for hot summer gardens. Despite...

Causes, Prevention, and What to Do with Split Tomatoes

Sharing is caring! Few things are more disappointing than walking into the garden to pick a perfect, ripe tomato only to discover a deep crack...
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