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Gardens to Take Inspiration From
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items Gardening soothes the soul. Even if you don't like getting your hands dirty, just being outside and creating a space that works for you will help ease strain.
For beautiful photography and details on natural gardening styles including prairie and dry gardens.
Gardens Illustrated | Discover the world's most beautiful gardens
To really get your hands dirty and to feel that connection with the earth when you garden.
Pickaxes | Mattocks - Screwfix
Also known as Japanese maple these are delicate leaves trees that come in a variety of sizes. Perfect for a courtyard garden or smaller gardens as a feature tree.
Acer Trees | Range of Maple Trees | Ornamental Trees Ltd
One of my favourite gardens just to walk around. A simple layout that includes sculpture, water feature and a garden cafe.
Musée Rodin
I visited for the recent prairie style planting but the majority of the garden is very formal. For a break from formality visit the orchard where the grass is left to grow meadow style and there are wild strawberries to sneak a taste.
Pitmedden Garden & Museum of Farming Life
A Welsh garden which includes sequoia trees. Famous for its rhododendron collection.
National Trust - Bodnant Garden
Somewhat out of the way place. It is the ruins of an old Georgian house and is now in the hands of the local council. It shows a bit in the landscaping but worth it nonetheless. Again visited for the redwoods
Home - Woodstock House & Gardens
A coffee table book. Not for the faint hearted, this is an insight into how designers create their landscapes from hand sketching to computer generation. One to buy and have on hand to flick through.
Landscape and Garden Design Sketchbooks
I was dragged into a charity shop one day by oldest nephew and this was on the shelf. It was a steal at $3. It covers prairie style planting or cultivating wilder plants and grasses for year round interest. Oudulf is the designer behind the New York ...
Planting: A New Perspective
Mabey writes very eloquently about nature. This book is reflective, covering the author's relationship with his own locality from a later in life perspective.
The Accidental Garden: Gardens, Wilderness and the Space In Between