Purple wellies blog
Welcome to Purple Wellies, the Painted Fern Garden Design blog. Here you will find gardening ideas, design inspiration and details of plants we grow and use in our garden designs.
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- BBC Gardeners' World
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- birds
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- Chelsea Flower Show
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- Community gardening
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- dry garden
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- hardy geraniums
- harvesting rainwater
- honey fungus
- Horsell Garden Safari
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- open day
- outdoor living
- paving
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- pests and diseases
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- RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show
- rose
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- screening
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- shrubs
- spring
- spring bulbs
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- summer flower
- summer planting
- sustainability
- tender plants
- tree
- unusual plants
- winter plants
- xeric
Gardens and green spaces
MAY 2020
Gardens and green spaces have become ever more important in the last few weeks and will continue to do so in the immediate future. We have always had an intrinsic connection with nature, whether we realised it or not, but it is only more recently we have put a name to it. Biophilia, the desire to surround ourselves with plants and nature for positive effects on our mental wellbeing, is something we have built up over millennia.
Why our biophilic habits should never be broken
FEBRUARY 2018
It’s been documented more and more that gardening is good for your health. From the physical benefits of digging over the soil, the nurturing element or to the well-being effects and stress-reduction of just looking at a plant or natural scene.