Front Gardens Archives - Garden Design Sussex

Best Echinacea Varieties for the Garden

Echinaceas provide striking colours to a garden, blooming from mid-summer through to mid-autumn. Commonly called coneflowers, these easy to grow plants work well alongside other perennials. They are ideal plants when considering prairie-style gardening, their height and range of colours complementing the ornamental grasses employed in this increasing popular type of garden. There are a good number of echinacea varieties to select from, but whichever best suits your planting scheme their colourful flowers will attract pollinators such as bees and butterflies in to your garden. Some varieties to consider include: Echinacea Purpurea ‘Magnus’ This is one of the more common [...]

By Andrew Staib|2021-06-03T10:47:59+01:00October 6th, 2020|Articles, Blog, Flowers, Front Gardens, Garden Art|Comments Off

Choosing the Best Herbs For Your Garden

Herbs are a wonderful addition to a garden. Whether growing them for culinary reasons, for attractive and fragrant borders, or to attract bees to the garden, herbs are often easy to grow and maintain. When landscaping a garden consider which herb is best suited for the function you want it to perform. Kitchen Gardens Using a freshly picked herb straight from your garden when cooking is hard to beat. There are many favourite varieties which are staples of a kitchen garden. Basil is a classic summer herb, easy to grow in pots and a lovely garnish to many dishes. A [...]

By Andrew Staib|2021-06-03T10:53:04+01:00July 20th, 2020|Blog, Flowers, Front Gardens, Garden Art, Grasses|Comments Off

Planting for a Butterfly Garden

Seeing butterflies flitting around is one of the joys during the summer months. If you are considering a butterfly garden when landscaping your outdoor space, the plants butterflies prefer tend to be ones which are easy to grow. Attracting butterflies in to your garden can be reassuring too, as they are good indicators of a healthy environment. They will also pollinate your flowers and help attract birds to your garden looking for food. Plants for a Butterfly Garden When landscaping a butterfly garden, you need to consider the larva stage of their life cycle as well as the adult stage. [...]

By Andrew Staib|2021-06-03T11:02:26+01:00July 13th, 2020|Flowers, Front Gardens, Garden Art, Insects|Comments Off

Your Vegetable Garden Can Be Beautiful

A vegetable garden does not have to be rows of monotonous green. It can be every bit as pleasing on the eye as any other style of garden. An area measuring 20ft by 20ft can produce a good range of crop varieties a stone’s throw from your kitchen. Stepping out in to your garden to pick fresh vegetables, salad leaves, herbs and fruits for your meals is one of life’s pleasures. When landscaping an outdoor space, a vegetable garden can be beautiful, practical and provide for low maintenance gardening. Image by congerdesign from Pixabay Let’s Get Started Making raised beds part of your [...]

By Andrew Staib|2021-06-03T11:20:09+01:00April 24th, 2020|Articles, Blog, Flowers, Front Gardens|Comments Off

Landscaping Design Ideas for Your Front Garden

A beautiful front garden welcomes you back home and can provide endless visual pleasure and inspiration. It also sets the tone for how other people view your house on arrival. Yet when landscaping your front garden space you will want to make it functional for you as well as aesthetically pleasing. Its upkeep and maintenance should also be a pleasure and not a chore. Native Plants Mapping out your landscaping plans helps get the end results you desire. By using native plants which are already adapted to the local climate you can reduce the time required in looking after [...]

By Andrew Staib|2021-06-03T10:58:34+01:00April 16th, 2020|Articles, Blog, Front Gardens, Grasses, Uncategorised|Comments Off

Front Garden Design

The whole front garden was just shingle onto of old brick and concrete. The worse the garden the better for me as the transformation is that much more delightful.My clients wanted a front garden design that would compliment and enhance the front of their newly renovated house. They still wanted an area to drive into the property to park and they wanted the bed to be very low maintenance.I separated the drive area from the garden with a mixed evergreen hedge and a bespoke black metal arch to match the curve of the arch over the doorway and the metal trim [...]

By Andrew Staib|2019-03-28T18:48:19+00:00June 7th, 2018|Blog, Front Gardens, Pots, Small Feature Trees, Transformations|Comments Off

Front garden design using Pittisporum

We completed this garden design and build about two years ago.We decided to make a real feature out of the beds by the side of the drive by planting a row of 5 Yew columns.However the fence was very unsightly behind the Yews so we made a bold decision and chose all the major, different coloured Pittisporums that can grow to minimum 8 foot. Now it has become a very attractive and unusual hedge with the small frilly leaves of the Pittisporum contrasting with the dark columns of Yew.We then make great curves of box hedging with box balls amidst [...]

By Andrew Staib|2019-03-28T18:23:22+00:00September 22nd, 2017|Blog, Front Gardens|Comments Off

front garden hangleton

Our client wanted something exotic and colourful with strong structure yet only had a small space at the left side of front garden. We used purple Phormium as a base interspersed with the smaller pink Phormiums, 'Maori Sunrise'. We chose as the feature tree a Rhus for its spaciousness and planted some Lobelia Tupa which are the bright red spires you can see. We also put in some peones.

By Andrew Staib|2019-03-28T18:23:22+00:00August 4th, 2014|Blog, Front Gardens|Comments Off