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May 20, 2024

Rewilding: How do you achieve a beautiful natural garden?

Rewilding and the trend for informal, natural, wildlife-friendly gardens continues to grow. Many homeowners in Berkshire and Buckinghamshire are choosing to have a natural garden design to improve biodiversity with planting that will attract and protect pollinators, birds, and other wildlife. The added attraction of a natural garden is that it needs less water and […]

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January 18, 2023

Plant a tree in your garden to combat climate change

Trees are wonderful for the environment. They not only look beautiful, they also help to combat climate change. Trees remove carbon dioxide from the air and store the carbon in their trunks, roots, leaves and surrounding soil. A fully grown tree can absorb around 21kg of carbon dioxide (CO2) a year. Trees can also […]

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August 16, 2022

Create a drought-tolerant garden with Artscape

The recent long spell of hot, dry weather here in the south of England has made many homeowners aware of the need to make their gardens more drought resistant. Here are some of the ways you can prepare your garden for future heatwaves. Choose the right plants Beautiful planting schemes can be achieved with plants […]

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January 26, 2022

Creating a new wildlife pond in your garden

Want to attract butterflies and songbirds to your garden? Then consider creating a natural living wildlife pond. Large or small, it will be good for the environment and beautiful to look at too. A pond is a wildlife habitat that is increasingly rare to find these days, as many of the UK’s ponds have disappeared […]