Tim Austen Garden Designs

The need to truly explore and integrate nature based solutions that combat issues with excess water and drainage. Unfortunately, Eeyore, the rain we have been experiencing in the last few months ...

https://www.timaustengardendesigns.com/2024/04/the-nicest-thing-about-the-rain-is-that-it-always-stops-eventually-eeyore/

As we step into the new year, the topic of steps is in our mind; not the British pop band from the late 90’s but actual steps! Why have them, where and what are they for? Steps perform a functi...

https://www.timaustengardendesigns.com/2024/01/taking-a-step-into-the-new-year-and-the-garden/

If there’s one thing that lockdown taught us; it was to embrace the outdoors during those trying times. Sunbathing in the garden, barbecues and an upsurge of greenfingers took centre stage duri...

https://www.timaustengardendesigns.com/2023/10/out-with-the-old-out-with-the-new-embracing-comfort-in-outdoor-spaces/

As we head into the summer months, we can recognise that this is a peak time for colour within garden design. Roses make a graceful reappearance, geums sprout up playfully from the ground and lav...

https://www.timaustengardendesigns.com/2023/06/colourful-language-the-importance-of-colour-to-garden-design/

In an ideal garden design, there would be every plant under the sun and zero limitations in terms of what we could plant, regardless of the climate we live in. This, however, is not sustainable, ...

https://www.timaustengardendesigns.com/2023/04/__trashed/

When you are contemplating your garden design, it is important to consider aspects that will have a transformative effect on your day-to-day life. There are many places from which you can get gar...

https://www.timaustengardendesigns.com/2023/02/outdoor-space-in-the-sun-mediterranean-inspired-garden-design/

If we consider the definition of the word “resolution” it implies a determined commitment, something resolute. I will go to the gym this year, I will read more, I will redo my garden… In te...

https://www.timaustengardendesigns.com/2023/01/new-year-same-values/

This garden blog post explores the use of boardwalks and bridges and other garden features to create fresh perspective and movement throughout the garden design

https://www.timaustengardendesigns.com/2022/11/strut-your-stuff-boardwalks-bridges-and-elevated-spaces-in-garden-design/

The humble rock, stones, boulders; whatever you want to call them, we are surrounded by these features daily either as natural or constructed features. Be it the pebbles on the beach or a cobbles...

https://www.timaustengardendesigns.com/2022/10/this-rocks/

Designers Urquhart and Hunt’s collaboration with Rewilding Britain (see link  https://www.rewildingbritain.org.uk/support-rewilding/rhs-chelsea-flower-show) at Chelsea 2022 has reiterated the ...

https://www.timaustengardendesigns.com/2022/09/taking-a-walk-on-the-wild-side-rewilding-your-garden/