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19 brilliant small garden ideas from BBC Gardeners World Live!
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19 brilliant small garden ideas from BBC Gardeners World Live!



Let me show you the best small garden ideas at BBC Gardeners World Live. See the best tips and tricks to make your small garden gorgeous.

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22 Comments

  5. Busara Firestone

    I just love your channel so much Alexandra, you and Garden Ninja are my go to for inspiration and entertainment every time I get a little break in my daily life. I am a garden design and plant "expert" but I still love to watch your videos on the basics. So rich and insightful. Thank you!

  10. anndoshi

    Thanks again for a wonderful and informative video. I’m returning to the UK after 40 years.and can’t wait to start my own garden. You’re inspirational!

  11. Nell Bridges

    Love all your output. Many thanks.
    Bit of info… Pronunciation of clawdd:
    cl as in clean
    aw as in owl or ouch
    dd as in the or then
    Hope that’s helpful x

  13. Alex M

    Alexandra, I always love your videos… but not this time! You always have great tips for beautiful gardens, you don’t need to adapt any of the silly ideas presented in these display garden exhibitions.

  14. a. evans

    Tip 1, l live in London and I'm transforming my garden with antique York flagstones and large vintage Terracotta pots and free plants all salvage from skips as my area is becoming more ethnically diverse and they have no interest in old-time gardening or cherishing the original features of period properties preferring new white plastic front doors over oak etc. Sad but true.

  18. Plants Over Pills

    White clover is such a beautiful, cheap and healthy alternative to grass. It’s high in nitrogen, so needs no fertilizer; does a great job keeping weeds in check, so needs no herbicides; is attractive to bees and other pollinators and doesn’t have grub problems, so no need for pesticides, holds a lot of water, so not drying out so quickly in the heat of summer and greens up very quickly when it does rain…. and, when cut with a bagged mower can be used as a mulch for any food or ornamental garden, naturally applying all that natural nitrogen.
    It makes a lovely carpeted green space without the financial burden of expensive additives or unhealthy spraying of poisons.

  21. sagebrush22

    When I plant a bed I use a similar method as I do when I make flower arrangements. I gather the flowers that are available then I arrange them at about equal distance around the vase. Starting with the largest flowers, keeping them in the middle area, then around that, add the next tallest flowers plus a few in between the large ones in the middle. Continue working your way around filling the vase with the remaining shorter or smaller flowers and remembering to add a few small flowers throughout the middle and high areas where there are gaps between the flowers. I sometimes add a bit of foliage at this time too.
    When I plant a bed I use this same method, only the flowers in the bouquet are replaced with shrubs, perennials and annuals. I just treat each plant as I would each flower when arranging a bouquet
    When I buy plants for a bed i like to think about color. In my instance bloom color comes second to foliage color when planning a bed. I am a gardener at a public facility and when I choose plants I usually go with what the foliage looks like over what the blooms look like. I try to arrange the plants that are next to each other to have drastic foliage, color and texture changes. Sometimes all three cannot be achieved with plants side by side. It is fairly simple to choose plants side by side with dramatic color differences in the leaves to achieve this goal. It makes it more challenging and fun to choose plants side by side that have all three traits, like dramatic color, texture and foliage differences.

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