Di contrib

Giving-Back
Developing-Interests
Finding-Jobs
Travel
Health
Money-Management
Mothers-Reinvented

Blogs

 Latest contributions 
Home Improvement tips 
 Jenny's letter
 Nsta Research into 'Gap year style' volunteering for the over 50s - what can we learn?       Debora
Getting right the work/life balance
RSS Feed for latest articles

Garden Make-Overs

(see also Gardens to visit and Gardening)

Perhaps you have an opportunity now to make an entirely new garden, or just to give your present one a make-over, or simply to make a few improvements that you have longed to make, or to help someone to do so. If you really get into it, there is so much to learn about growing things - about growing conditions, plants, their care, and so on: there is no shortage of sources of information about the theory.


Garden designers: local/regional/specialist
        Society of Garden Designers, Ross-on-Wye. info@sgd.org.uk; tel 01989             566695
        Gardens Illustrated always contains a Design Directory, which includes                     advertisements of designers (which can also be found in local                     papers and magazines), together with a list of garden designers                 working in particular parts of the country.
        See Directory of garden designers (www.gardendesign-u.com).
        Local designers include:                        
            Firth Gardens, www.firthgardens.co.uk, tel 020 7602 4099                    Siobhan Prager, Tel 020 8998 5682
            Wendy Robinson, www.wendyrobinson.co.uk,
                Tel 07931 337 496
            Julia Tenison, julie.tenison@ic24.net, tel 020 8995 5870
    
    Gardening contractors: local/’regional/specialist

Sherlock Landscapes is a small family company working in London and Surrey:  see http://www.sherlocklandscapes.co.uk/default.html, for photographs of a selection of their work        
        London Gardens, www.londongardens.net, tel 020 8742 2733
        John Leslie, W6, www.johnlesliegardens.com, tel 0020 7381 5600
        Wellscapes, tel 01784 642639
        Kiwi Landscapes, W13, www.kiwilandscapes.com, tel 07931 736 565
        Tilia Landscapes, tel 07949 610 071
        Alpha Garden Ltd, Ealing, www.alphgarden.com, tel 020 8997 6628
        Hammersmith & Chiswick Landscapes, www.hclandscapes.co.uk,
            tel 020 7602 7485
        Cutting hedge, www.cutting-hedge.com, tel 0781 080 5745 or
            0208 567 5021
        Greendotgardens.co.uk, tel 0207 062 0384


    Garden maintenance
        Firth Gardens
        Julie Tenison
        - see under Garden Designers above.


    Garden Centres: local

        Ginkgo Garden Centre, Ravenscourt Avenue, London W6 0SL;
            Tel 020 8563 7112; www.ginkgogardens.co.uk.
        B&Q ‘Mini Warehouse’. Chiswick Roundabout, London W4 5QL; tel 020             8995 8028; www.diy.com.
        Homebase, Western Circus, Western Avenue, Acton, London W3 7XX;             tel 020 8740 9114; www.homebase.co.uk.    
        Syon Park Garden Centre, Syon Park, Brentford, London TW8 8JG; tel                 020 8568 0134. www.gardening-uk.co.uk
        Specialist
            The Half Price Pot Shop, 88 Shepherds Bush Road, London W6;                 tel 020 7602     2240.
            The Palm House, Ham