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• Landscape Design Fashions for Spring/Summer 2012
  on Jun 8, 2012 in landscape architecture design garden
  It looks very much like the trend for black and amber shades in planting will continue unabated. Many garden design experts have been using the dark drama of black plants for years now, but combined with amber leaves and foliage too – the effec...
• Water Shortage in 2012 and What it Means for Garden Design
  on May 10, 2012 in garden designer
  Today’s news is rife with reports of imminent hosepipe bans across various UK regions – and it’s not even May yet! But garden designers and landscape gardeners are putting paid to the predictions, with confident reports that water u...
• Landscaping Design Trends for 2012 and beyond
  on Mar 27, 2012 in landscaping design
  Less Lawn & More Planting As people all over the world become more environmentally aware, it is likely that contemporary landscaping design will favour less lawn and more planting. It is a simple fact that a well-manicured lawn consumes a great d...
• The Ten Principles of Good Garden or Landscape Design
  on Feb 15, 2012 in landscape architecture garden design
  Whether you are tasked with thinking about creating some new flowerbeds in your cottage garden, or if your job is considering creating a large public space for a city council – believe it or not, the principles involved in each scenario are muc...
• A Brief History of the Landscape Garden
  on Jan 30, 2012 in garden designer landscape gardeners
  The English garden designer was really born in the 18th century, when garden designers such as William Kent and Capability Brown started introducing landscape garden features such as hills, lakes and trees into previously, very much untouched, countr...
• The 3 disciplines of landscaping
  on Jan 18, 2012 in landscaping landscape architects design
  It is widely understood that the ‘landscape’ has six main compositional elements: the landform itself, vertical structures, horizontal structures, vegetation (or flora), water and climate. To take a scientific angle on it then, landscapin...

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