Saga’s online Magazine had a feature on Japanese Gardens, so wanted to include the Japanese Garden that we created for a client in Northolt.
So please read the article: https://www.exceptional.com/…/japanese-garden-ideas/
and / or
have a look at our garden below:
Modern Gardens Magazine approached Rhoda to answer a reader’s questions on what to do with their uninspriring space. “My garden faces north and is very dark and gloomy…..I would like it to look pretty and modern……”
Click HERE to see the full article.
In recent months Rhoda has been asked to provide editorial advice for the popular magazine GardeningExpert.com; such as:… good plants for shade gardens, good plants for under trees, good plants for beginners and design ideas for narrow gardens.
click here to see one of the articles
The Association of Professional Landscapers (APL) have annual awards and 2 of our gardens achieved great results:….
Watertower – received Gold and our Japanese garden a Silver Merit – with thanks to Agentsgreen for building both of these to such a high standard.
You can see both these gardens here:
Gold Award
Silver Merit Award
We are very happy to announce that we have won the Houzz Award in both 2019 and 2020 for our ‘Outstanding Customer Service’
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rhoda maw garden design was thrilled to be awarded ‘Best Bespoke Garden’, in Build magazine’s Landscape and Gardening Awards. This was for our Back garden in South Ruislip: https://rhodamaw.com/garden/outdoor-room
“The 2018 Landscaping and Gardening Awards, pays homage to those who create the picturesque vistas and accentuate nature’s beauty through thoughtfully designed gardens, parks and outdoor spaces while protecting inhabitants and the eco system alike”
https://www.build-review.com/winners/2018-rhoda-maw-garden-design/
Christmas jobs and plants for the Garden.
Holly and Ivy are great plants for this time of year, but are sadly often overlooked.
When many other plants in the gardens can look bare, hollies have a healthy vitality that can carry a garden through the winter. Their glossy leaves provide a bright green shine and their natural pyramidal shape requires very little pruning to keep them in shape. Then, of course, there’s the addition of bright red berries livening up a dark corner. And also look great on the mantlepiece at Christmas.
Then what about Ivy; often scaring people as they can take over, but that’s only some varieties. Chose the right plant for the right place and it will add all year colour and texture.
See below the full article which also tells you of the benefits of Ivy. Or to read about jobs to do in other months or best plants for other months, click here.
Some of the best Garden Plants for November include:
1 Sedums eg: Sedum spectabile
2 Mahonia nitens ‘Cabaret’
3 Liriope muscari – a great plant for the fronts of borders
4 Nerine bowdenii
5 Viburnum × bodnantense ‘Dawn’ for fabulous scent – so plant it by a door, or where you’ll pass by often
6 Pyracantha berries will start shining
7 Some Camellias eg. C.sasanqua
And some jobs to be getting on with:
1 Insulate outside containers from frost – bubblewrap works well
2 Put out food to enourage winter birds into the garden
3 Plant bare root roses any time from now until March – remember to plant them deep with lots of manure compost
4 Clean out the Greenhouse
5 Rake leaves off the lawn
6 Clean your mower before storing it for the winter
See below the two articles which also tells you of jobs you could do in the garden now. Also to read about jobs to do in other months or best plants for other months, click here.
Garden jobs for October can be very rewarding. If you don’t have a compost heap why not start. It’s a great way to get rid of garden waste, saves filling council bins and it’s really enjoyable being able to put back invaluable organic richness into the ground for next spring. See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/basics/techniques/soil_makecompost1.shtml
Plants looking great in Oct:
1 Grasses eg. Miscanthus for height or Hakonechloa for ground cover
2 Anemone ‘Honorine Jobert’
3 Penstemon ‘Andenken an Friedrich Hahn’ for bright red
4 Rudbeckias
5 Hardy fuschias eg: Fuchsia ‘Mrs Popple’
6 Hypericums may still be flowering, or if not they will be producing their red berries
See below the full article which tells you of jobs you could do in the garden now. Or to read about jobs to do in other months or best plants for other months, click here.
The summer is fading but the garden needn’t. Read more about good plants for September as well as jobs to be getting on with in the garden in September.
There are lots of plants and flowers that are still looking great in September, see the list below. Also, now is a great time to start collecting seeds of your favourite plants so that you can create your own ‘free’ plants for next year; See: https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/in-month/september
Plants looking great in Sept:
1 Agapanthus
2 Buddleja – great for butterflies and bees
3 Passionflowers
4 Achilleas
5 And, the grasses really come into their own in Sept eg. Deschampsia cespitosa ‘Goldtau’, Miscanthus, Panicum, Pennisetum etc…
See below the full article which also tells you of jobs you could do in the garden now. Or to read about jobs to do in other months or best plants for other months, click here.
Read here about some of the ten best plants for August. Also what to do in the garden now as well as remembering to water when it’s dry:
1 Raise mower blades and reduce mowing frequency in dry weather
2 Top up water levels in garden ponds if they are getting low
3 Deadhead roses, bedding plants and repeat-flowering perennials to encourage more flowers
4 Keep feeding container plants with high potassium for continued flowering
5 Trim hedges to keep them in shape, but avoid a really sunny day which could scorch the leaves.
Ten plants looking great in in August are:
1 Penstemons flower for months
2 Leucanthemums for big daisies
3 Scabiosa for bees and butterflies
4 Vinca to cover the ground
5 Lavender for scent and bees
6 Myrtle – an evergreen with scent
7 Stachys byzantina for soft silver foliage which is great to stroke and for tall spikes of colour chose:
8 Lupins
9 Veronicastrum
10 Digitalis
See below the full article which also tells you of jobs you could do in the garden now. Or to read about jobs to do in other months or best plants for other months, click here.
There are loads of of things to do in the garden now, but some of the top garden jobs for July are:
– Sow salads seeds, plus other veg eg; broccoli and spring cabbage
– Look out for mildew usually a sign that the plant is too dry, so prune effective leaves and water well
– Deadhead regularly to prolong flowering season
– Rejuvenate perennials, by giving some of them a hard chop back eg. Geraniums
– Turn compost heaps to add oxygen
– Trim evergreen hedges to keep them in shape, but avoid a really sunny day which could scorch the leaves, and make sure no nesting birds.
Some plants looking great now are:
– Achilleas in different colours
– Gaura for a ‘froth’ or pink or white
– Penstemons
– Salvia Caradonna
….and to read the article to get the full list, please read below. Or to read about jobs to do in other months or best plants for other months, click here.
