Here are a few ideas on how you can make your garden interesting and engaging for children. Read more.

Here's an inspiring selection of winter and early spring interest plants to keep your garden looking bright and colourful through… Read more.

Get inspiration and learn about plants suitable for screening in smaller gardens. Read more.

In this blog, we’ve put together some pointers for those of you who want to ensure your lawn remains in… Read more.

Wide deep borders can present a challenge, but they also offer lots of scope for impact and creativity. Here's some… Read more.

If you constantly find yourself battling a soggy, wet garden, you're likely wondering what you can do about it. This… Read more.

It is easy to underestimate the impact a new patio can have on your garden. This patio design guide takes… Read more.

Every designer has a "go-to" list of trusty plants that they use many times and love because they will always… Read more.

If Salvia ‘Caradonna’ is one of my go to plants for early-mid Summer, then Aster amellus ‘Violet Queen’ & Aster… Read more.

This is definitely one of my “go to” plants when preparing planting plans as it is so reliable, well behaved,… Read more.

A Rosemary? Yes, I am extolling the virtues of a simple, commonly available Rosemary plant. What's to like? Rosmarinus ‘Miss… Read more.

We've just published another featured project - this time an ultra contemporary family garden in Twyford. The brief was to… Read more.

We've just published a couple of new featured projects, and thought we'd highlight one of them here on our blog… Read more.

Love the flower and wafting scent of Lilac, but put off by the fact that they grow too big too… Read more.

One of the most common requests I receive from clients when designing gardens is to ensure that the planting (amongst… Read more.

Until recently, Nandina domestica was little known and rarely used by gardeners in the UK, but it is now gaining… Read more.

Clients often ask me how I know how far apart to space plants when designing a new planting scheme. And… Read more.

What should I do with my lawn after the ravages of last summer? In summary: Don't panic!! Replacing your entire… Read more.

Let’s face it, gardens don’t always look their best in mid-winter. Yet, looking out at my back garden this morning,… Read more.

You know it’s nearly Christmas……. when the first thing that greets you at your local garden centre is a vast… Read more.

For me, one of the joys of designing, and then constructing gardens for people is witnessing the pleasure that clients… Read more.

As any ALDA Landscapes customer will tell you, I am a great fan of Pittosporums, and they feature in some… Read more.

Many of the gardens we work in have starkly rectangular or very angular boundaries. In addition, many modern houses are… Read more.

At last we have had some rain, and lawns have begun to take on a hint of green - although… Read more.

Wherever there is a change of level in a garden, some form of step(s) or ramp is required. Garden steps… Read more.

As I sit in my office writing this blog, the sun is shining gloriously outside, and it is very warm… Read more.

We build a lot of raised beds at ALDA landscapes. In fact, the majority of gardens we work on feature… Read more.

You might remember seeing a blog post a while back about designing on the diagonal. Our client very kindly took… Read more.