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    3. Soft landscaping

    Soft landscaping

    Mixed borders at Gravetye Manor garden
    Planting ideas

    Garden border ideas: 16 for the garden

    Bird on water trough at Yeo Valley Organic Garden
    Garden design

    How not to lose nature from your garden

    Podocarpus nivalis
    Shrubs

    Forget Ilex crenata: this is the best alternative to box

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    Taxus baccata (Yew), a perfect hedging plant
    Plants

    Hedging: 30 top plants for a hedge

    Stavordale Priory
    Garden design

    Design Solutions: Topiary

    Learn how to lay a hedge using traditional craftsmanship and hedge laying skills.
    Garden design

    How to lay a hedge

    Malus 'Evereste'
    Trees

    Trees for small gardens

    Decorative Ivy
    Plants

    The best ivy for your garden - top variegated and decorative cultivars

    Pennisetum orientale 'Tall Tails'
    Plants

    Pennisetum for late summer borders

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    Ula Maria garden
    Garden design

    Creating a private garden

    A garden arbour
    Garden design

    How to make a garden arbour and tunnel using natural materials

    Lawn grass by Jonas Weckschmied © Unsplash
    Soft landscaping

    Best grass seed for your garden

    Marian Boswell's layered border planting plan
    How to...

    Garden border ideas How to create a mixed border planting plan

    Naturalised crocus planted in a lawn under a mature tree framing a typical Cotswold house in the distance
    Rural

    A Cotswold rectory garden with topiary and early spring bulbs

    In a hilltop location, bands of Persicaria amplexicaulis ‘Rosea’, Phlomis russeliana and self-seeded Lychnis coronaria support each other in a densely planted flower garden. The sun is setting through a Catalpa bignonioides and great plumes of Miscanthus sinensis ‘Gracillimus’ hide the parking area.
    Rural

    How to create a flower-filled hillside garden

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