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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- autumn plants
- bacteria
- BBC Gardeners' World
- biophilia
- birds
- Box alternatives
- bulbs
- Chelsea Flower Show
- Clematis
- colour
- Community gardening
- container plants
- daffodil
- dry garden
- evergreens
- fern
- fungi
- garden design
- garden lighting
- garden seating
- garden trends
- gardening
- gardening gifts
- Habitats
- hardy geraniums
- harvesting rainwater
- honey fungus
- Horsell Garden Safari
- houseplants
- Insects
- mulching
- NGS
- open day
- outdoor living
- paving
- perennial
- pests and diseases
- plant combinations
- Pollinators
- Propagation
- RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show
- rose
- Salvia
- screening
- show garden
- shrubs
- spring
- spring bulbs
- spring flowers
- spring plants
- summer flower
- summer planting
- sustainability
- tender plants
- tree
- unusual plants
- winter plants
- xeric
Gardening Help
AUGUST 2022
Requests in the village for gardening help are becoming more common, but how can you be sure of finding the right person for your requirements. I’ve listed a few things to consider before you begin.
Dark Desires
NOVEMBER 2017
Deepest, darkest black. A colour scarcely found in flora. Nurserymen and breeders are always striving to increase the narrow range of plants on offer with inky tones in order to fulfil our quest for dark desires of that something a little bit different.
Shedding Light on the Show
JULY 2017
Fresh back from working with Gold medal winning and Best in Show landscape designers, Adam White & Andrée Davies (Davies White Ltd) on their Zoflora & Caudwell Children's Wild Garden, at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, I thought I would give you an insight into how you can make your garden at home a showstopper too.
Nothing Quite Like Chelsea
MAY 2017
Well here we are again, I’m sure it won’t have escaped your notice – its Chelsea week. The one time of the year when ‘us’ green fingered lot can finally get our own back on all ‘you’ sporting types with full saturation on both TV and press of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, the epitome of the gardening calendar.