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Let's celebrate autumn! With stunning leaf colours, juicy berries, colourful fruit, flowers and shining grasses. Here are my top nine… Read more.
The ALDA team have transformed this sloping garden with beautiful steps, curved retaining walls and planting beds. The attention to… Read more.
Hardy fuchsias really shine in September when other summer flowers are fading. Perfect for a low maintenance garden, they flower… Read more.
Bring that amazing holiday feeling home, and use your travels as inspiration for creating a space to relax and unwind… Read more.
Rose of Sharon is a lovely flowering shrub to add to your garden for mid to late summer colour. Read more.
Grey tends to be a less popular colour choice when it comes to paving. Despite this, it has it's own… Read more.
If you are looking for some inspiration for refreshing your plant borders, look no further. Take a look at these… Read more.
Hydrangeas are beautifully bold summer show-stoppers that are equally at home in both contemporary and traditional planting schemes. Learn how… Read more.
Here's my take on 5 of this year's top trends from the show. We had a great day, and returned… Read more.
This beautifully fragrant early summer flowering shrub, deserves a place in any mixed border. Read more.
Here are my top 6 picks from our visit to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show this year. Read more.
A mass of voluptuous, unmistakable scented flowers, a lilac bush or tree is a joy in late spring. Read more.
A fresh new border in time for summer makes all the difference in this Newbury garden. Read more.
Adding edibles into your ornamental garden is a great way of enjoying fruit, veg and herbs. Many edible plants are… Read more.
Chaenomeles are wonderful eye catching early spring flowering shrubs. They're also easy to grow and low maintenance - what's not… Read more.
These slow growing neat evergreen shrubs earn their keep in the garden with spring flowers followed by long lasting white… Read more.
Designing climate resilient gardens is becoming increasingly important so that our plants can withstand and thrive in extreme weather and… Read more.
Hamamelis are wonderful, quirky, winter interest shrubs or small trees. They make a great addition to the winter garden. Read more.
From tired and worn to fresh and contemporary - this new garden design gives our client's property an instant lift. Read more.
It's the beginning of a new year and looking at 2026, the gardening world is all about purposeful design. Read more.
Cornus or Dogwood are brilliant for adding winter interest to your borders. When there's not much else going on, their… Read more.
Sarcococca is the perfect choice for adding evergreen structure and sweet scent to the winter garden. Read more.
Take a look back at some of our design build projects from this year. Read more.
Learn from Katie, our Garden Designer, about the most common garden design mistakes and how to avoid them. Read more.
Chrysanthemums are brilliant for adding late autumn colour to the garden. Learn all about them here. Read more.
Heucheras make a great addition to borders and containers in autumn when many of the summer plants have gone over.… Read more.
Biophilia (meaning love of nature) is a term that describes humans' innate attraction to the natural world. Biophilic garden design… Read more.
Take a look at this smart contemporary garden one year on after landscaping, with planting now established. Read more.
From planning a new border to a complete garden remodel, we pride ourselves on transforming ideas into beautiful reality, with minimum disruption. If you’re based in or around the Reading and Newbury area, we’d love to meet and discuss your project in detail – book your free no-obligation garden consultation today. We do get pretty booked up, particularly during the Spring, so plan ahead if possible!