Garden Design Show

And if you'd like to attend the free fast track garden design training mentioned, go to: https://www.successfulgardendesign.com/freeclasses/ and choose the class that suits your garden. In this episode Rachel continues her tour of Great British gardens and shows what to do and more importantly what not to do in your garden! To see more photos of the gardens featured in this episode, head on over to: https://www.successfulgardendesign.com/show23/

http://www.successfulgardendesign.com/show18/ In this episode designer Rachel Mathews from Successful Garden Design shows you how to tackle gardens with changes in level. She'll show you how to divide the space to make the terraces look great. If you'd like to see more about the Great Garden Formula 3.0 course, please visit: http://greatgardenformula.com/

In this episode Rachel and the Successful Garden Design team look at how to create a stunning roof terrace garden. How to choose the right plants and how to correctly plan a small space garden. To get access to the Small Garden Secrets FREE video series, please visit: https://smallgardenformula.com/secrets To visit Casa Aire de Lecrin guest house go to: http://www.casa-aire-de-lecrin.com Designer Ali Conway shows some ideas for awkward shape gardens. In the travel segment Rachel visited Genalgaucil for garden sculpture ideas. And Jüzcar for the smurfs! Recommended places to eat: http://www.hbenarraba.com near Gaucin and Genalgaucil. http://www.lagarganta.com near El Chorro (gorge and lakes) for the Caminito del Rey walk (you'll need a good head for heights!). Sorry if the video quality is a bit poor - computer had a major issue and wouldn't render it so it's a screen recording of it playing!

For more info on how to design small gardens visit: http://smallgardenformula.com In this episode garden designer Ali Conway takes you on a tour of the World's premier gardening event, the Chelsea Flower Show that was held in London last month. You'll be able to see all the latest trends from top designers in garden design. Sticking with the theme of smaller space gardens, designer Rachel Mathews will help a friend do a roof terrace makeover and show you just what can be achieved by rearranging the space a bit. Rachel will also give you some ideas for balcony gardens from the lovely Spanish village of Jimena de la Frontera.

To see more about the Great Garden Formula 3.0 visit: http://www.greatgardenformula.com In this episode Successful Garden Designers Rachel Mathews and Ali Conway walk you round the Cambridge Botanic Gardens to look at how to effectively repeat plant in your garden. They also show designs they have been working on for a long garden and a wide garden. If you'd like to visit the Cambridge Botanic Garden, take a look at their website: http://www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/Botanic/Home.aspx You can contact Trisha (just outside of Chicago) from Roots Nursery here: http://rootsnursery.com/ Show notes are at: http://www.successfulgardendesign.com/show15/

You can check out the Great Garden Formula at http://www.greatgardenformula.com Does your patio look the way you want? Does it work with the rest of your garden or is it dull and boring? The SHAPE of your patio makes such a difference to the overall look of your garden. It's often THE most overlooked aspect of garden design. In this episode, international garden designer, Rachel from Successful Garden Design, critiques some design layout plans and offers solutions on how to improve designs. Find out how to design a great looking patio for your garden in this brand new Garden Design Show episode...

http://www.successfulgardendesign.com/courses/ http://www.successfulgardendesign.com/show12/ In this episode garden designer Rachel Mathews discusses how to correctly position garden statues, sculptures and focal points. You can see the rest of her interview with artist and author Kitty Harri in the Andalusian sculpture garden in Otivar near Granada in Spain. Rachel will then give you her tops tips on positioning focal points from a garden designer's perspective. She'll show you how you can make your garden look bigger and more interesting by the correct placement of the focal points you use. Cheeky Plant Border Tips You will also find out how to do a really simple trick that enables ANY plant border to instantly look better without the need for moving any plants or doing any gardening whatsoever! What Would You Like to See Covered in Future Shows? I'd love to get your ideas for future shows so that this can be as beneficial to you as possible. Leave a comment me know what topics you'd like me to delve into in future episodes in the comment boxes below? You can also subscribe to the Garden Design Show on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/garden-design-show/id790250905?mt=2 Download your FREE landscaping design guide here: http://successfulgardendesign.com/help-guide If you'd like to see more about the online garden design courses Rachel mentions, visit: http://www.successfulgardendesign.com/courses/

In this episode of Garden Design Show, Rachel will tell you all about how you can incorporate fruits and vegetables into your garden using stunning tips and tricks regardless of what size your garden has. She is bringing in an expert, a broadcaster and the best selling author of "Year-Round Vegetable Gardener", Niki Jabbour. They will also discuss Niki's new book called "Groundbreaking Food Gardens". To get you even more interested, Rachel will go through the details about the fruit producing modern courtyard she designed that is in Niki's book! They will discuss how much a lot of people are interested in a fruit and vegetable producing garden. Another interesting topic you will also learn about is the Cocktail Garden plants where you can grow things you like to drink. You will be surprised what berries and edible flowers you can add to your salads that came straight from your fruit and vegetable garden. They will also talk about pollinators and wildlife, the natural side of the garden and the flowers that attract the pollinators and how you can keep them. Identify good bugs that will help you grow your fruit and vegetable garden or herb garden. You will also see a sneak peak of Rachel's design on the fruit and vegetable producing garden, which looks very modern and no one would think that it's food producing. The book also features a concrete and steel garden, a good way to use recycled materials and concrete is ideal for some plants. Before they wrap things up, Rachel asks Niki on what her advise is for people who are starting to build their own gardens and suggestions on vegetables and herbs you can mix in your garden plants. The design show will be back later in the year - What Would You Like to See Covered in Future Shows? I'd love to get your ideas for future shows so that this can be as beneficial to you as possible. Leave a comment me know what topics you'd like me to delve into in future episodes in the comment boxes below? Links from this episode: Niki's book: http://goo.gl/jeehfz http://www.nikijabbour.com http://savvygardening.com

What Would You Like to See Covered in Future Shows? I'd love to get your ideas for future shows so that this can be as beneficial to you as possible. Leave a comment me know what topics you'd like me to delve into in future episodes in the comment boxes below? You can also subscribe to the Garden Design Show on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/garden-design-show/id790250905?mt=2 If you'd like to see more about the competition prize, visit: http://successfulgardendesigncourses.com/plant-design-formula/

If you'd like to to get the Special offer Rachel mentions in this video simply check out http://www.successfulgardendesign.com/plant-design-expert/ and the get the 5 Minute Plant Expert and Plant Design Formula half-price (only until April 25th 2014). In this episode, professional, international garden designer Rachel Mathews will discuss her tricks of the trade for choosing the right plants for your garden. She'll show you how to avoid the most common planting mistakes and help you save money at the garden centre. To plant a garden successfully, it's critical that you get the right plant in the right place. So a bit of time spent researching which plants will grow in the conditions you have in your garden will make the world of difference to your success. Rachel will show you a case study garden that she'll be creating a planting plan for in the next episode. If you'd like to answer her question and tell her how you would make the planting border bigger - just leave your answers at: http://successfulgardendesign.com/show8 What Would You Like to See Covered in Future Shows? I'd love to get your ideas for future shows so that this can be as beneficial to you as possible. Leave a comment me know what topics you'd like me to delve into in future episodes in the comment boxes below? You can also subscribe to the Garden Design Show on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/garden-design-show/id790250905?mt=2 Download your FREE landscaping design guide here: http://successfulgardendesign.com/help-guide Get the 5 Minute Plant Expert and Plant Design Formula half-price (only until April 25th 2014) http://www.successfulgardendesign.com/plant-design-expert/

If you'd like to to get the Special offer Rachel mentions in this video simply check out the Great Garden Formula online garden design course: http://www.successfulgardendesign.com/online-garden-design-course-4-2/ that lasts only until the end of March. In this episode, professional, international garden designer Rachel Mathews will feature sloping gardens, steps and how to deal with a retaining wall and changes in level. She will reveal her simple method for linking different level changes within the garden. This video is a quick sketch challenge for an existing garden in Scotland which needs re-doing so a retaining wall and steps can be added. You will learn how Rachel sketches over the existing sloping garden to re-design it using oval and curve shapes. Rachel will also talk about tips and ideas on putting in steps and a retaining wall. She will discuss how wide or narrow the steps should be and how it affects the retaining wall that you will put up. This will also help with making the garden look and feel larger. You must think about the entire garden... She will also tackle level changes and do it in a way where the garden looks much more inviting. She will give you advice on the measurements for the levels on the steps and what the average measurement is. She will also mention some suggestions on what you can put beside the retaining walls, like dense planting as barriers so no one falls off the patio and it also makes it feel even more open in that area. At the end of this episode, in just a few simple garden design sketches, you will see how effective the lawn and patio shapes are and how the curves draw your eyes down the landscape of the garden. What Would You Like to See Covered in Future Shows? I'd love to get your ideas for future shows so that this can be as beneficial to you as possible. Leave a comment me know what topics you'd like me to delve into in future episodes in the comment boxes below? You can also subscribe to the Garden Design Show on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/garden-design-show/id790250905?mt=2 Download your FREE landscaping design guide here: http://successfulgardendesign.com/help-guide Get the third off the Great Garden Formula here (only until end of March 2014) http://www.successfulgardendesign.com/online-garden-design-course-4-2/

Check out the Great Garden Formula online garden design course that Rachel mentions in the episode: http://www.successfulgardendesign.com/online-garden-design-course/ In this video, you will learn how to transform your front garden. Professional international, garden designer, Rachel Mathews, will show you how to plan front garden design ideas in a number of ways. She will talk about 2 types of front gardens, the purely decorative and the practical ones that incorporate a drive. You will learn front garden ideas on how to landscape these 2 separately and she will also let you in on a golden rule when planning to design your front yard, particularly for gardens that incorporate a drive. This will guide you to creating a much more interesting front garden. Some of the gardens featured in this episode will show you how you can improve your front garden space to accommodate car parking capability and at the same time keeping the look of the front garden design pretty and tidy. Front gardens don't have to be fancy and you don't have to spend a lot of money to build it. She will discus how one simple dominant shape of lawn can tidy up the look of your garden and how to make it work well with the look of the house and also how to tie up your garden's landscaping to your surrounding area. Also, this episode featured food producing front garden which should give you design ideas for your own front yard regardless if it's just a very small space. Another front garden Rachel featured is one that is low maintenance, where she made use of a simple wire fence. She will also be out and about to show you different styles of front gardens and share her thoughts and give you pointers about how it can be improved. In this part of this episode, Rachel will talk about focal points in your front garden and how other elements of your garden should tie in to it. Did you get the answer right last time? There's also the answer to the last episode's question on why the garden wall was staggered and not in a straight line. Rachel is now back in the UK, enjoying the peace and quiet after Spain... well almost - see the outtakes at the end! What Would You Like to See Covered in Future Shows? I'd love to get your ideas for future shows so that this can be as beneficial to you as possible. Leave a comment me know what topics you'd like me to delve into in future episodes in the comment boxes below? You can also subscribe to the Garden Design Show on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/garden-design-show/id790250905?mt=2 If you want to learn more about the Great Garden formula Rachel mentions in this video, visit: http://www.successfulgardendesign.com/online-garden-design-course To download your free Garden Help Guide, go to: http://successfulgardendesign.com/help-guide

In this episode, Rachel will share the secrets of creating a modern style garden. She will discuss how to use the "Less is more" method to get that modern style. Also, she will give a detailed advice on how to create the illusion of a longer garden by using design tricks that can make your garden look wider than it really is. There are also tips on where to place the lightings around your garden to create a cozy environment. Need Help with Your Garden? Attend one of our FREE Fast Track Garden Design online classes… Register on this page: https://www.successfulgardendesign.com/freeclasses/ What Would You Like to See Covered in Future Shows? I'd love to get your ideas for future shows so that this can be as beneficial to you as possible. Leave a comment me know what topics you'd like me to delve into in future episodes in the comment boxes below?

Creating a garden that is full of edibles AND looks good, can be quite a daunting challenge. In this episode, landscape designer, Rachel Mathews from Successful Garden Design, will show you how she transformed a garden in Malaysia into a contemporary, food-producing garden. This episode also looks at how to correctly place focal points like garden statues and water features correctly around the garden. Placing focal points in the correct position in your garden makes a tremendous difference to how you view it. Rachel will show you how the best locations to put any garden feature. There are also tips on how to place landscape lighting around your garden to enhance the design and make it look spectacular at night. Leave your answer to the question about what makes this garden look modern, here: http://www.successfulgardendesign.com/show3/

In this episode Rachel will do her first quick sketch challenge, where she designs a viewer garden from scratch. You'll be able to see just how simple it can be to completely transform your garden using her simple landscape design methods. You'll also receive the answer to the question from the last episode. The show will give you plenty ideas about how to landscape a 'blank canvas' garden as well as discuss ways you can reduce landscaping costs. To view more about the show go to http://www.successfulgardendesign.com/show2/

In this Garden Design Show episode, professional, international, garden designer, Rachel Mathews, will show you how she has designed a wide garden, near LA. She will talk you through all the landscaping tricks you can use to make a wide garden look and feel longer. She'll discuss how to get the most from your landscaping materials, to enhance the space in your garden. Rachel will also show you the best way to use feature lighting in your garden, along with plenty of other landscaping ideas for your garden.