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
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- BBC Gardeners' World
- biophilia
- birds
- Box alternatives
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- Chelsea Flower Show
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- Community gardening
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- daffodil
- dry garden
- evergreens
- fern
- fungi
- garden design
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- garden seating
- garden trends
- gardening
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- Habitats
- hardy geraniums
- harvesting rainwater
- honey fungus
- Horsell Garden Safari
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- mulching
- NGS
- open day
- outdoor living
- paving
- perennial
- pests and diseases
- plant combinations
- Pollinators
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- RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show
- rose
- Salvia
- screening
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- shrubs
- spring
- spring bulbs
- spring flowers
- spring plants
- summer flower
- summer planting
- sustainability
- tender plants
- tree
- unusual plants
- winter plants
- xeric
Beautiful Borders BBC Gardeners’ World Spring Fair
FEBRUARY 2024
We are delighted to announce our ‘Beautiful Borders’ design which will be at BBC Gardeners’ World Spring Fair at Beaulieu, Hampshire from 3rd – 5th May 2024.
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.