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Hello, I brought my first house last year and it has a small garden. When I brought it was very neglected and full of weeds. I have cleared it and am now left with a rather dull looking garden.  I have dug out a border on the right hand side

Hi G.W forumee's. We have a small back garden that has been in need of some help and ideas for the past few years since we moved in. It is about 25ft x 15ft, basic lawn with no borders (fence lawn fence)with patchy grass on top of mud/soil (I know

Hello all, I've just joined so that I can ask you for some help. Due to the stony nature of my soil I have a lot of raised beds in the garden, so that when I cut the grass around them there is always a strip of long grass left up against the edge

Hi, I have a  very small windy garden and I would like to plant a tree that grows to about 12' to 15'  It will have to be planted very  close to a fence, the soil is clay.any one got any ideas? not really a good idea to plant any tree so close to a

* Idle moment? I looked up "idle" in the dictionary. So that's what it means. Fancy people having those. I wish professional gardeners would stop recommending Silver birch for small gardens without specifying the size they mean! I have a small

Hello Ladies/Gents I'm completing a university project and was hoping some of you would be able to give me some advice? The project is to design a new product and after observing my Grandad and his struggle to collect water in his small(ish) garden

lot of places still to visit! I have just moved into a house with a lovely (if a little overgrown) small, established garden that has several healthy trees in it - I don't think there is enough space for anymore trees to be planted in the ground

but with enough foliage. My gardening knowledge is somewhat limited so any advice would be much appreciated, thank you! What about a mixed hedge with shrubs such as photinia Red Robin, Philadelphus, hawthorn (birds like the berries) with the odd small tree

Agree with susan16pen about trees - shade, roots etc present a challenge to small gardens. Nice selection of plants but it would be really good to see some examples of small gardens with them in situ. Very disappointed with this article. Surely

or small stones the whole garden and plant a few small plants and maybe a pave in the middle. 2) Flower bed under the window made from new railway sleepers with some lights in the side of the wood. I would then put gravel or stones all over the rest with a