5 top garden design tips-and 2 mistakes to avoid!Add “before” and “after” shots
The top garden design concept from the award-winning Charlotte Rowe Garden Design company. Charlotte and design director Tomoko Kawauchi told us some design secrets that made the company so successful. And check out some charming “before” and “after” photos of some of their gardens. For Charlotte Rowe Garden Design: 00:00 Introduction 00:13 Charlotte Rowe and Design Director Tomoko Kawauchi 01:02 The three most important things when designing a garden 01:33 Tip 1-List everything you do, what you use, and what Look in your garden 01:59 Look at the light-where the sun sets 02:13 What already exists in your garden is very important 03:49 Draw a rough “bubble” map on a piece of paper 04:19 Tip 2- Lateral thinking (through the garden) 05:52 Tip 3-Paint fences, walls or lattices dark 07:04 Tip 4-Plant near the house 07:49 Tip 5-Plant mostly evergreens in a small garden 09: 02 Garden Design Mistake 1- Don’t let the garden “center” 11:05 Garden Design Mistake 2-Don’t make your border too small 12:07 What garden designers and gardeners do 12:53 British Association of Garden Designers: For the garden Or backyard garden ideas, gardening suggestions, garden design and landscape ideas, please subscribe to the medium-sized garden YouTube channel here: Wheth Do you like English garden style, cottage garden or modern urban gardening, The Middlesized Garden provides gardening advice and gardens for you Creativity. Weekly videos cover gardening advice and garden design—from small space gardens to medium-sized garden landscapes—as well as garden tours and container gardening tips. Medium-sized gardens practice sustainability, wildlife gardening and no-tillage methods. If your garden backyard is less than an acre, please join us and enjoy your garden even more! “The Complete Guide to Medium-Sized Garden Garden Privacy” is available in Kindle or paperback editions in 13 countries/regions (only available in English). If you want your garden to be more private, please click here for availability in your country: #gardening #gardendesign #backyardgarden For small and medium backyards and gardens… see Medium Garden Blog: For Amazon Storefront , See: Note: The link to Amazon is affiliated, which means I can charge a small fee for eligible purchases. It will not affect the price you pay, I only recommend what I use or really think you like! More garden ideas on Pinterest: Twitter: Facebook:.
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There is a British paint company which calls its very dark green exterior paint Invisible Green, I guess it’s for the reason explained in your upload.
This was very helpful!!Just painted the house,next the foundation, then my medium sized backyard. My echinacea has "Aster Yellow"!!!!Didn't even know it was a thing.Ugh
The principles make sense wherever one gardens. Rational and beautiful! Thank you.
Awesome tips! Thank you for sharing, it is wonderful to see how a Garden designer plans ahead and utilizes the space.
Your videos have helped my career and business and inspired me so much – thank you – wholeheartedly , from Rachael Taylor LoveGardens x
Although I'm more a plant person than a garden designer I do appreciate the skill and artistry that was demonstrated in this video and also I appreciate the great tips. The one thing I don't really understand however is the use of very dark color on walls and fences where you are going to put plants. In my Pennsylvania garden, if I painted my west-facing fence dark blue or black it would look stylish and add drama, but every plant that I have there now would lean away from the fence in search of light and/or be cooked to a crisp by the western rays of the sun hitting that surface during the summer months. I think the advice to paint walls and fences dark colors really needs to be very carefully considered for those reasons.
Great tips!
Fabulous video Alexandra – thank you! I'm in mid planning as we speak! Great tips!
GREAT VIDEO as always ! Very informative
oooh, what a treat!!!
hi could you please make a video on small tree that can be planted near house or in containers that can be kept closed to house.
Love your tips for better design, maybe you could do similar for a country garden of about half an acre. Thanks in advance.
This is such a valuable video, thanks so much! I have found the most challenging thing as a new gardener is having the courage to break up that big central area that most of us keep as "the lawn". These kinds of tips are so useful. Thank you!
Thank you!
Alexandra, I SO appreciate your videos. They give me hope that i might be able to do something with my garden mess one day. Hugs!
Another excellent video. You are so good at gleaning the best from your interviews and packaging it for the rest of us. Thank you!
Very interesting episode.I appreciated very much.Thanks Alexandra for your explanations.
Excellent Video, Alexandra! It has a wealth of useful guidance, great before and after examples
and good interviews.
I think I have watched this three times and will refer to it often.
I also think the designers’ clients really got their money’s worth in those eye pleasing gardens.
I love your blogs and videos. Could we have something on ponds? I used to have a big, quite formal circular pond, which I had to change because it started to leak. I now have a much smaller irregular-shaped pond, but I'm struggling to make it 'fit' visually into the garden as I don't like the way I can see the plastic edge. I don't think I can effectively disguise the edge with planting because it's set into a gravelled area.
Very informative video on design. Really enjoyed the wealth of garden examples and the before and afters.
Thank you Alexandra!! the Chiswick garden after photo is beautiful and BTW stunning necklace you are wearing. cheers
Being mindful of views from inside my house has greatly improved my gardening choices. Thanks, Alexandra for all you do in making your videos. Did you get a new camera? You are crystal clear in the images of you talking.
How educational! I always thought landscapers per their work were garden designers and this video makes it acutely clear how that is just not so. I am also curious, a lot curious, about creating a dark wall in a garden. I would like to hear more about that concept.
Time to start some redesign…love these tips.
So wonderful to watch this video! Great tips and inspiration.
Hello your videos are really helpful , our garden has dry earth, with have wild strawberries and wild garlic growing how can we get rid of them ? Plus on garden design to landscaping do you have any videos on gardens with gradient? Thank you
Fantastic video—great information. You do such a beautiful job of interviewing people and synthesizing the information for us. Thank you!
You inspire me. Thank you
Great ideas and info love your channel!! Thanks!!!