Congratulations to Living Colour’s Petra Horackova on her recent success at this year’s Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. Petra won Gold medal and the Tudor Rose Award for Best Show Garden together with Caroline Comber. Petra has been a member of Living Colour’s team for over 2 years and her inspiration for design comes from [...]
Read more... CommentsIn Anticipation of Our 10th Anniversary…….
Monday, November 7th, 2011
In anticipation of our 10th anniversary, we want you to celebrate with us in 2012 Would you rather be drinking your gin and tonic on a warm sultry evening in this garden?……….. BEFORE Or this garden? AFTER Living Colour Gardens are offering a 20% discount on all landscaping and garden design fees on orders made [...]
Read more... CommentsLiving Colour featured in Garden Design Journal
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
Living Colour Gardens’ Director, James Walsh, has been featured in the Garden Design Journal’s Review of the Year. James recently designed and built a contemporary urban garden in Queens Park, London. Read article here
Read more... CommentsPlant Tulips Now For Spring Colour
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
Plant Tulips Now For Spring Colour! We are offering up to 100 of these tulip bulbs FREE with all bookings made during September and October. Living Colour recommends: Tulipa “Mount Tacoma” – White, double, peony-like, 50-60cms Tulipa “Angelique” – Pale Pink, double, peony-like, 50-60cms Tulipa “Queen of Night” – dark claret, single, 60-70cms Call [...]
Read more... CommentsTips of the Month – September
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
September Checklist Now that summer is over and autumn nears, it is time to plan the garden for 2012 Plant of the month Anemone Wild Swan: 2011 Chelsea New plant of the year – a stunning new hardy perennial – Reaching about 16-18in/40-45cm high, and blooming from May to November, each pure white flower [...]
Read more... CommentsVersatile Lavender
Thursday, August 18th, 2011
Get up, shower, dress, coffee, breakfast, out the door, cramped train, work, complaints, motivating, negotiating, worrying, out the building, and home. Home…..where your environment works for you, not the other way round. But we humans need more than walls and central heating. What we need is a bit of me time with a warm, aromatic [...]
Read more... CommentsLiving Colour’s Edible Family Garden – Summer 2011
Thursday, August 11th, 2011
My garden, like many others I imagine, is a constant work in progress…. After four years of playing around with ideas whilst my family grew from 1 to 3 rug rats running around causing chaos… I think I have finally come up with the perfect solution …. The idea was to create a garden of [...]
Read more... CommentsWisteria Pruning
Monday, June 6th, 2011
Summer Pruning of Wisteria These “Jack and the Beanstalk” plants are wondrous when in full flower and are an asset to any property but watch out, they can be a menace if left to their own devices and need to be controlled at this time of year: Care should be taken to: – Prevent from [...]
Read more... CommentsLiving Colour’s Edible Family Garden – Spring 2011
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
James Walsh’s Edible Garden The dream is to one day move myself and my family to the countryside where we can enjoy a larger piece of land and be able to grow more food and rear animals to feed me, my wife and my 3 children. In the mean time I want to experiment with [...]
Read more... CommentsHammersmith Grove
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
Living Colour Gardens are currently engaged in an exciting collaboration in Hammersmith Grove, designing and building the garden of a flagship property for an interior design and build consultancy, EHG Renovations. This represents a new direction for Living Colour Gardens, working directly with designers and property developers at the key stages of major renovation works [...]
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