Grasses Archives - Garden Design Sussex

Using Colour Theory in Garden Landscaping

Colour plays an integral role when landscaping a garden design. Colour can be the most important element to consider in achieving a garden which is pleasing on the eye, working alongside combinations of textures, lines, forms and scale to give you your ideal garden space. When planning your garden, you should consider how colours from the plants will work in the garden as a whole, in specific areas such as borders and in tandem with existing features like walls and trees. To this end employing colour theory can help you achieve your landscaping designs. Image by rikkerst from Pixabay What [...]

By Andrew Staib|2021-06-03T11:21:53+01:00August 18th, 2020|Articles, Blog, Flowers, Grasses|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

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

Autumn Light- Garden Design

I helped my client Paul Craig design his garden. He already had some interesting and original ideas and together we decided on the right plant for the right place. We used a round corten steel sculpture for a focal point and chose unusual plants like tree ferns, Senecio Angle's Wings and Cannas in amongst more traditional prairie planting making sure there was colour all through the seasons. The Deschampsia Goldtau grass, surrounding the new pool, captures the afternoon sun.

By Andrew Staib|2020-05-12T13:52:47+01:00November 14th, 2019|Autumn, Flowers, Grasses, Plant Combinations|Comments Off

Inspiration for designing your garden – Beth Chatto

In 1960 Beth Chatto set about transforming a wasteland on the edges of her husband's family fruit farm near Elmstead Market, Essex.It is now a world renown garden. Her skill was not to fight nature but use species that suited the terrain and soil conditions, creating the intersecting lakes, bog and dry gardens. It seems obvious now but at that time gardeners were still making a garden look like they wanted without regard to the time and effort and expense it needed to have something grow where it didn't want to. One of her mottos was how could a plant thrive [...]

By Andrew Staib|2019-03-28T18:29:04+00:00March 6th, 2017|Blog, Grasses|Comments Off

Prairie Gardens West Sussex

The Prairie gardens has been going for almost 10 years now. If you like wild grasses and full planting that interlinks like a great tapestry you will enjoy this garden immensely. I will post more detailed photos later this month but I like these big vistas. The field which they planted on is surrounded by mature oaks. Inspired by the Dutch and German Naturalistic plant designers of the 1980's Paul and Pauline McBride originally planted 30,000 plants on 1000's of tonnes of recycled garden waste. In late winter rather than prune everything with shears they set fire to the [...]

By Andrew Staib|2019-03-28T18:29:04+00:00October 17th, 2016|Blog, Grasses|Comments Off

stipa giganta

Stipa Giganta is often used in a large shrub border. Here is is used at the ends of two narrow beds creating a golden passage way.It's common name is Golden Oats. The seed heads remain all winter.

By Andrew Staib|2019-03-28T18:29:04+00:00August 4th, 2014|Blog, Grasses|Comments Off