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Have you ever been in the situation where you've finished the hard landscaping on a project and then the client asks for help with the planting?

Plants are great - and in my opinion, if you get it right, they really do make the layout and the hard lan

Roof Terrace Design - Angel, Islington: ironbutterflydesign.co.uk

The client lives in a stunning penthouse in Angel, North London.  Her home boasts two roof terraces and she was keen to have them updated to reflect the interior.  The terrace adjoining

Planting Design - Primrose Hill London 2012: ironbutterflydesign.co.uk 

Looking forward to revisiting this North London garden.

Brief

The garden needed refreshing.  Some of the planting had outgrown the space and had subsequently been removed.  A design

As our garden design and build project in Liphook comes near to completion I thought I would write a quick bit about the brief and what we've done to meet it.

I was called in about 5 and a half weeks ago to quote for a lovely couple in the Liphook are

THIS PROJECT IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION, CLICK HERE TO VIEW DAYS 11 - 14 IMAGES.

Day 15

The client has requested that the curved rising black sleeper shrine at ground level be raised by 1 meter so the garden structure is visible from the higher seating ar

Last week I made a visit to a garden in the grounds of a beautiful historic building in Hampshire, where I have designed a new courtyard for long-standing clients. My clients moved to this house in the last couple of years, and most of the garden was

"The cold wet summer experienced in Western Europe this year doesn’t seem to have held back the flowering  of the ornamental grasses in my garden. From now on until the end of autumn is when things really begin to get exciting here. Of course calamag

I posted about my green roof in April last year, and thought it might be helpful for anyone considering doing a similar scheme to post an update. Here in Gloucestershire, this year has been so much wetter than the previous two, and it has made a big

  Some of you may have followed my posts and photos for this garden for St James's church, Piccadilly that I have redesigned as an Olympic legacy project for one of the games' major sponsors. I was very pleased last week to see the Narcissus in full

A3 hand drawn planting plans are designed created for your gardens, landscape and rammed earth projects, all plants will include full names, positions and quantities of plants for each planting area, the planting plan will be numbered with the correc

I am so happy, at last It is here. First time online launch.

I truly think that in the Future it will be used on many project.

What is the tree water maizer?

A device that found to have massive impact on young trees growth.

It made from recycled plastic

This week has been a snowy one with winter finally hitting us and the business with a couple of days forced off and it totally changes the look of the garden with everything covered with snow, with every garden be it well kept or unkempt looking the

I posted a blog about this garden 6 weeks ago, and since then the build has continued well. Saying that, I think all builds go through phases when they seem to be taking shape really fast, and others when you wonder if it will ever be finished, and I

The objective was to create a garden with space to entertain and enjoy. Existing beds needed retaining and a shed was required. Privacy to the south was important, as was a degree of order and ease of maintenance.

The solution is based around a strong

Bamboo plants in the garden- You must know if you have it or Will plant it. Cool Video.

Here that is for you,

cool video on a very important thing that who ever planting bamboo shoud know.

Few more points:

1. All bamboo plants spread, even some ar

This was the title of the Gardens Illustrated lecture held yesterday at the Royal Geographical Society.  Jointly steered by Tim Richardson, garden historian and writer, and Noel Kingsbury, researcher and writer, the discussion between three well-kn