Category: garden planning

Creating a Beautiful Garden with minimal maintenance

The weather is getting warmer, the evenings are getting longer and we can look forward to enjoying lots more time outside. May is a great time to plant a low maintenance space so you can begin to spend time enjoying the garden throughout the year.

Low Maintenance Ideas

Consideration of the Garden structure

Ditch high maintenance grass and develop a patio surrounded by carefully planned borders or a series of patios interspersed with planted areas

Easy care planting

Opt for easy care drought tolerant planting to give colour, scent and encourage pollinators. Use verbena, salvia or lavender, self-seeders like poppies and forget me nots, evergreen shrubs and ornamental grasses

As an extra measure you can add an automated watering system to ensure plants are kept watered until established and during extreme drought periods. You can also add mulch to keep moisture in the soil

Patio garden

Container Planting

Use pots and containers to add seasonal interest and colour in the border and on the patio

Making use of the extra space in the garden and create an extension to your home

  • Develop a seating area for relaxing and socialising
  • Make a dining area for entertaining
  • Add lighting for evenings outdoors
  • Consider shade. Plant for shade, build a structure or add in a piece of garden furniture to give shade

If you are ready to finally unleash the full potential of your garden or roof terrace get in touch for a consultation.

Get in touch with Fen today at Bloomingplaces

Design Maintain Develop

Based in Kingston Upon Thames, covering SW London

Getting the garden in gear for the forthcoming year

by Fen Ryan, gardener and designer at Bloomingplaces

  • summer blooms
  • outside dining
  • relaxation zone
  • textured planting
  • evergreen shading
  • spring scents

We’ve all done it, looking endlessly at the garden during a balmy summer day and wishing it could look like the place you see in your minds eye. You may have an aspiration for your garden but it may need aligning with the possibilities of the space. Taking up a consultation with a designer will allow an assessment of your site which will pull together a brief that will ensure you end up with a functional, beautiful design, bespoke to your space, making your dream a reality. Dream the design now design that dream.

  • colour scheme
  • layout
  • textures

To get the garden to its best possible end result, during the consultation the designer will look at all the elements that need to come together to give the structure and functionality that go towards developing a lush, evergreen, usable space. Hardscaping in the right places, created with carefully chosen materials, alongside plants, that will be chosen for their suitability to the site as well as their structural form, contrast shapes as well as scent. A mix of perennials and evergreens will take the garden through the seasons giving it a vibrant, lush outlook throughout the year. Soft flowers against an evergreen backdrop creating a space to enjoy from day into night.

  • ferns
  • spring colour
  • scent
  • winter interest
  • spring colours primrose
  • skimmia
  • movement

Your garden may just need some tweaking to get it where it needs to be and February is a fantastic time to set the scene in the garden for what is to come for the rest of the year. Its the right time to move existing shrubs/plants whilst they are dormant, putting in bare root perennials for later in the season and popping in sprouting spring perennials bulbs for spring scent and colour. Its the perfect time to either start on maintenance and cleaning up your existing garden before spring bursts forth or to get the wheels in motion to get design layout plans started for early building and plant planning so the garden is ready to enjoy as soon as the warmer months arrive. And remember a well planned planting scheme is key too creating a garden with all year round interest.

Get your garden in gear, don’t leave it for another year.

For a free initial consultation call Fen on 07769651599 or email fenryan@outlook.com