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
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- garden seating
- garden trends
- gardening
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- 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
Xeriscaping
FEBRUARY 2023
Garden trends in the last year have seen further interest in Xeriscaping, no doubt affirmed by last year’s drought. This may or may not be a term you are familiar with, but as we see more evidence in our weather patterns of climate change, it is sure to be a phrase you will come across again.
Not such a shady character
MARCH 2016
If you are a lover of ferns, but find your garden is too sunny and dry for them, then maybe you need to explore this genus a little deeper. Ferns are an incredibly large and diverse group of plants, having colonised nearly every continent on the planet.