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
2025 gardening trends
DECEMBER 2024
It all begins with an idea.As another year begins, I look at what new plants and trends 2025 holds in store for us gardeners.
Garden design trends for 2024
DECEMBER 2023
As we move closer to the New Year, what does 2024 hold in store for design ideas for our gardens?
Disappearing front gardens
JUNE 2019
The humble front garden. Whatever happened to it? Lush, well-manicured green lawns of the 50’s surrounded by Hydrangea’s in an array of psychedelic colours interspersed with equally garish dahlia’s in glorious technicolour.