Author: Tamsin, Secret Garden

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Driveway with Screening Update

Since our last post about this project, which you can see here, Jerry has laid the majority of the rumbled charcoal block paving for the ...
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Porcelain Patio with Timber Raised Beds

Upon arrival into the garden, it looked like a standard, terraced garden for this area of Bristol, with a lawn and borders, and an old ...
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Stone Wall Restoration

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Front Garden Transformation: Driveway with Screening

Whilst we had been constructing the back garden, we had been using the front garden to store materials that we were using. Once we began ...
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Small Garden Decking and Trellis Revamped

As you can see, the fence/trellis that runs between the two houses is in a pretty bad state and needs to be replaced. Also the ...
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Urban Front Garden Make Over

We started off by walking around the garden, discussing the plants with our customer. We decided to keep a few of them, but the majority ...
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Garden Design: Modernised in Bedminster

Team Jerry began by removing all the vegetation. There was a lot of heavy – and very prickly – pyracantha and berberis planted around the ...
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Naturalistic Planting Garden Design Continues

The new retaining, red brick wall with yellow limestone coping stone top is now finished, and gives not only important, structural support to this new, ...
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A Gardener’s Dream Garden Completed

If you are keen to see our post from the start of this garden transformation, click here. Here is a photo of the garden before ...
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A Dream Garden Almost Complete

Since our last post about this garden, the pond has now been lined and filled, and is ready for marginal and pond plants to be ...
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