Garden Designers shares tips and expertise.
Plants for Harsher Winters
Back to Reality – Plants for Harsher Winters by Myles Challis The last two hard winters have made many gardeners realise that we had come to take for granted the relatively mild ones that we had previously become accustomed to. The once familiar sight of such things as huge Cordylines, Phormiums [...]
Phormiums - Using New Zealand Flax in the UK Garden
Using New Zealand Flax in the Garden Phormiums or the New Zealand Flax Phormium Tenax is a very useful architectural plant to add colour and structure to any garden. Let's look at some ways to use it in the garden or patio. Phormiums - Using New Zealand Flax in the UK Garden The variegated form [...]
Architectural Plants for your Garden
Working with Architectural Plants for the Hardy Tropical Garden by Myles Challis If you want to create an exotic or tropical effect in the garden then there are some essential architectural plants with tropical allure that you will need to achieve this. Most are adaptable when it comes to sun or [...]
Myles Challis - Garden Designer
Introduction to my blogs by Myles Challis – Garden Designer When I staged my first Show Garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 1986, incidentally the first garden of its kind to be shown at the Chelsea Flower Show, it was met with a certain amount of bewilderment. No-one had seen an outside [...]