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Green Garden Design
http://greengardendesign.blogspot.com
Sustainable landscape architecture, garden design and planting musings from award winning garden designer and writer Alice Bowe
- Added on: Jan 16th, 2008
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: Alice Bowe
- Listed in: Home and Garden Green
- Tags: sustainable eco planting recycled materials green roof green garden design
Recent Posts
Eco friendly garden furniture
When choosing eco-friendly garden furniture, is it enough for it to be FSC certified? Should we be sticking to local materials or choosing garden furniture made from salvaged or recycled materials?Is it more sustainable to choose garden furniture ma...
box-bunnies for a spring windowbox
In celebration of spring, my sister has planted up this amusing windowbox tableaux of topiary bunnies in a field of yellow 'tete-a-tete' daffodils.The box bunnies are still filling out their topiary frame, but are growing at such a rate that they wil...
Lawns: turf will flourish with thyme
I have been experimenting using my favourite groundcover as a lawn. Cotula squalida, a creeping evergreen from New Zealand is one of the best performers I have come across. It makes a great alternative lawn because it reaches only 2.5cm high and is...
Recycled green waste converted to ericeous compost
An ericaceous compost made from recycled green waste is finally commercially available for gardeners.The compost from Vital Earth is said to be the first of its kind on the market.It includes humite, a mineral which helps to lower and stabilise pH at...
Vintage stone lighting - close but no cigar
These fibreglass and resin garden lights are painted to look like stone. The idea is to solve that garden design quandary: how to find garden lighting that is attractive in the day?By day these lights from Joanna Wallis really are convincing in thei...
Claim your free pocket garden from Garden Boutique
Luxury garden accessories store Garden Boutique are giving away a FREE POCKET GARDEN with every order over £30...Supplied in a sealed leak-proof bag the Pocket Garden contains specially formulated compost and seeds that once cut op...
