Pretty Wild
Designer : Jordan Weston Company : The Bearded Botanist Sponsors : Fullbrook Nursery
Through this border ‘ Pretty Wild ’, showcases a classy and stylish way to encourage more wildlife into your garden . It demonstrates how a carefully selected group of plants and colour scheme to fit a gardens style can still attract plenty of wildlife into your garden and look pretty too !
Wildlife Habitat
Designer : Lorraine Brodrick Company : Cotswold Garden Designer
This design of the border is to highlight some of the plant varieties that attract birds , bees , butterflies and other pollinators to the garden . It offers somewhere for bugs to flourish and the importance of water for all life to thrive .
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Equatorial Suburbia
Designer : Rachel Glover Sponsors : Hillview Hardy Plants , Worfield Plants , Shady Plants Gloucester , Oxley Print , Alchemy Ferns
Wild as a descriptive word brings to mind warm exotic scents , sounds and glorious large leaved plants . Tropical explorations using mechanical machines / engines entering our natural world with its own organic security and preventative measures in place to stop access .
This natural world can be adapted to exist in our back gardens through understanding and correct seasonal management . Tropical gardens boast colourful plants and flamboyant foliage , that transform any outdoor space into an equatorial oasis . A garden filled with jungle like planting creates a show stopping impact with the lush growth it achieves in such a short growing season .
Incorporating this type of planting into a suburban living ; especially courtyard or terrace gardens is increasingly beneficial for insect population . Many of the plants required to fulfill this design Ferns , Hosta , Canna , Musa are tolerant in our weather climate are shade tolerant and need occasional protection .
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