Trish Bartleet shares some insights on ‘soft landscaping’ – the plants that give life and living colour to your garden. The soft landscaping in a garden should be revisited every seven years because the form and size of the plants change, and the gardens can become shady. Most gardens look their best between two and five […]

As much science and art goes into shaping the land around your home as the architecture itself. Trish Bartleet takes us around the garden. Creating the brief: your first step is to define what you want to achieve from the property. Collect all your own thoughts and ideas as well as those from anybody else […]