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How to plan a garden – tips from the experts at the National Trust School of Gardening



Welcome to the first in our new series of gardening films. Join Gardens Researcher Rebecca Bevan as she meets some of the National Trust’s expert gardeners for advice and tips you can benefit from at home. In this episode, she visits Packwood House in Warwickshire to meet head Gardener Mick Evans who shares his experience on planning a garden. Mick is full of useful ideas on how to design planting schemes using colour, choosing flowers and shrubs for borders and much more.

You can find out more in this series of films to be published throughout 2021, or buy the book to accompany the series “The National Trust School of Gardening” from http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/shop

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3 Comments

  1. The right planting scheme really completes and enhances the surrounding architecture and this was a great example. It looks like Mick really knows what he's doing. Thanks, Rebecca!

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