Corners are often overlooked quiet spots in your garden where the only gardening limitation is your imagination…and the amount of sunlight the area gets! After our recent super successful small tropical garden experiment that we made in a corner, I have been thinking about other ways to use outdoor corner spaces effectively. The benefit of…
Garden Inspiration
12 Small Tropical Garden Ideas To Try Out
In gardening, like in life, variety and creativity are essential, and I recently spotted some tropical garden ideas that I couldn’t get enough of. Of course, I will never give up any of my precious rose space, but with my collection of all types of pot plants snowballing, I hadn’t realized that by grouping them…
7 Very Small Front Garden Ideas To Try Out
The front garden is the first impression anyone gets of our home. However, unless you have a full-time garden service, it needs to be a carefully planned out space that is neat and manageable. The front of your house must consistently look chic, so you can’t ignore any mowing or pruning when it needs to…
8 Pretty Small Corner Rock Garden Ideas To Try This Summer
Inspiration comes from many sources, and while scrolling through small garden ideas online, I realized that rock gardens don’t only have to be about succulents! A rock garden can be a place of fairies and magic, so get the kids involved, and it’s easy to turn a drab corner into a low-maintenance garden feature to…
25 Garden Room Decorating Ideas You’ll Love (budget friendly)!
With us all stuck at home in lockdown you can’t have missed the trend for garden rooms, so I’ve been busy creating Pinterest boards about garden room decorating ideas! I love the idea of my own garden room, where I could sit and relax as I watch the bees buzz in the summer, or curl…
25 Kid’s Gardening Ideas For Winter
The sun is coming out to play, finally! And my daughters have been begging me to take them to the garden centre to buy plants and pots. But what about getting them outside in the colder months? I wanted to share with you some of the things we have been doing in our outdoor space…
How To Design, Plant And Grow A Gorgeous Small Rose Garden! (For Less Than $200)!
I have a really tiny, unsightly space just behind my house that recently has me thinking hard about how to design, plant and grow a small rose garden. Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links, we earn commission from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you. Learn more. I was amazed to discover that you can…
Make A Concrete Patio Kid-Friendly (Safe, Fun, & Beautiful Ideas)
With two young daughters, it’s really important to me that our concrete patio is kid-friendly! If you’ve been following my recent posts, you’ll know that while I have a lot of outdoor space, it’s all made up of concrete patio. Having a kid-friendly backyard or garden helps kids to want to spent time outside, and…
75 Household Items To Use As Planters – Upcyle Joy!
I got the idea for upcycling household items to use as planters when I visited a little local village here recently. One inventive house had used giant feta tins (well, I do live on a Greek island) as planters all over their garden wall, and it looked amazing – so rustic-chic, with these sunbleached blue…
Create A Gorgeous Balcony Herb Garden
Recently, I noticed that out of our 13 tomato plants on our balcony that we started during lockdown (did anybody NOT grow tomatoes during lockdown)!? – only one had survived. Yep, I’d followed all the gardening books advice, and treated my seedlings like they were living in a rainy, shady English garden. The problem being…
