I left RHS Tatton this year absolutely inspired by all the beautiful gardens, planting & flowers on show, but also inspired by ideas and products for sale. Some were super affordable and DIY-doable, some were way out of my budget but gave me food for thought on how I'd adapt the ideas and apply them... Continue Reading →
Share: Rocking The Rust Trend Outdoors
I had a thoroughly fabulous time at the RHS 2016 Tatton Flower Show, naughtily requisitioning a chunk of the Moregeous budget (considering the fact that we still haven't bought a kitchen) to gather lots of floral delights. I didn't visit last year as our garden was still a builders yard and not being able to buy amazing... Continue Reading →
How Do I: Source Mature Planting
Visiting your local DIY superstores or independent garden centres are both great for picking up smaller plants, but if you've a reasonable budget and don't want to wait years for plants and trees to become more established, investing in more substantial specimens is a way to get immediate impact in newly designed gardens or bare corners.... Continue Reading →
How To Work Garden Grey With Whites & Greens
The trend for greys in gardens is well established for 2015, updating outside spaces with contemporary hues and a modern vibe. So, alongside creating the bee friendly Buzzingly Beautiful and grow your own Herby Entertaining space on my recent Bents garden / interiors challenge, I also chose to create a romance filled, classic design, easily recreated in a... Continue Reading →
How to Create a Buzzingly Beautiful Bee-Friendly Garden
Have you noticed that everyone's buzzing about getting more bees in their garden? We've always tried to be bee-friendly with our Moregeous gardens so with that in mind, I set out to make one of the three garden spaces I designed for my Bents Challenge especially "Buzzingly Beautiful" It was made very easy for me to... Continue Reading →
Making a Moregeous Mansion – the best birdhouse in the West
Once upon a time there was a bit of a sorry looking birdhouse, rescued from a house renovated by Team Moregeous but not really given any of it's own TLC. Even so, our squirrels and birds loved it and the birdhouse was much used for several years, ignored by our resident pussy cat Mia whose... Continue Reading →
The Moregeous garden slate fest continues
I blogged about this sorry looking front garden above a couple of weeks ago, whilst we were re-tiling the front path after a crap job when I first bought it 4yrs ago. Weeks of intermittent rain and shine this summer, plus decades of previous neglect meant a spaghetti junction of roots under the soil which constantly... Continue Reading →