Ideas for your garden and patio, showing award-winning gardens as well as lots of inspiring ideas such as Gardens with Seating Areas. Here we also showcase some of our favourite gardens that never cease to inspire us. These include Overbecks, Villa Taranto and Isola Bella.
The Italian Lakes - our favourite trees and shrubs...
A selection of our favourite Trees and Shrubs of the Italian Lakes in Northern Italy by Karen Mariconda Pruned trees are fashionable in Lombardy, Northern Italy Trees and Shrubs grow lusciously in the lakes of Northern Italy. Shaped shrubs and trees such as domed Camellias, Photinia Red Robins [...]
The Beautiful Italian Lakes with Stunning Botanical Gardens...
An Inspirational Trip to Italy At least twice a year we travel to Lombardy in Northern Italy to source new and unusual plants for the Paramount Plants collection. Mature Trachycarpus Fortunei - Chusan Palm Tree, growing at Lago d'Orta in Lombardy These trips are a source of enjoyment and delight [...]
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2013 - 100 year anniversary
Tree Ferns and Japanese Acers were our favourite plants on our visit to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show this week. Beautiful Japanese Acer Dissectums at Chelsea Flower Show 2013 Foliage more than flowers will always give enduring interest in the garden with vibrant colour and architectural shape [...]
Battling The Winter Blues by Amanda Broughton
As we continue to brave the arctic conditions (snow is falling as I write), and our gardens have turned into a brown soggy mess, we all wait in anticipation for spring to arrive, bringing with it the promise of warm sunny days. Whilst the gloom of this long winter is fresh in our minds, now is an [...]
Design from the Inside Out!
Using your outdoor space to embellish the interior design effect of your home can produce inspired results. Decked Terrace - Tailored outside space to complement your carefully crafted interior Floor to ceiling sliding glass doors opening onto soft carpets of green, blurring the boundaries of [...]
Notting Hill Communal Gardens - The Garden Design of Rosmead Gardens
Rosmead Garden is one of the most beautiful of the garden squares in Notting Hill, part of the Ladbroke Estate which also includes Arundel Gardens, St John's Gardens and the largest - Ladbroke Square. 'Natural Landscape' tree planting in Rosmead Gardens, Notting Hill Originally the 140 acres which [...]