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The variety of plants available to the designer is inexhaustible. Nowadays specialist nurseries provide large ‘specimen’ plants for instant effect, which the skilful designer can exploit.
Similarly the use of turf rather than seeding quickly provides a sense of maturity as the photographs show of this garden in Gosforth, one being the laying of the turf, and the other taken in the early spring a few weeks later.
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The use of colourful ‘evergreen’ shrubs like this Euonymus, which is a versatile plant, either spreading or climbing, vigorous and readily pruned ensures all-year-round colour. Variety is added by the seasonal appearance of contrasting bluebells in this garden in Jesmond.
A trailing Clematis is a fine sight, and the detail of the earthenware jug is the kind of touch that lifts our gardens out of the ordinary, without it costing the earth.
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We have found it more practical to chose specific plants after the garden has been built. This allows the customer to see the garden as it is, rather than on a drawing, from which is not very easy to visualise the design in three dimensions.
Often the owner has particular preferences, perhaps areas for cut flowers, herbs, herbaceous borders, spring and summer bedding, climbers, ground cover, ‘wildlife interest’ species, all-year-round colour, evergreens, vegetable and fruit growing. The list is almost endless. We see our role as providing the ‘structural’ planting, within which these more specialised categories are incorporated. We have considerable expertise within the company and through colleagues with whom we maintain a close liaison on such horticultural matters, and will be pleased to make these skills available if requested.
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