Plan Your Garden
If you’re looking for ideas for your garden or are interested in reading about our garden design topics, you will find them all here. Use the drop down menu for specific design topics or simply browse or use the search box in the bar above. Enjoy!
Grow Your Own
Learn how to grow fuss free fruit and veg, with these top tips. There's so many reasons to grow edibles… Read more.
Garden Seating
Katie, our garden designer, shares her top tips for planning and designing functional garden seating areas. Read more.
Attracting Birds to Your Garden
Find out how to attract more birds to your garden with these five easy tips. Read more.
Incorporating Containers in a Garden Design
Plants in containers are a great way to bring interest to your garden throughout the year. In this blog, Katie,… Read more.
Garden Water Features
Have you ever thought about adding a water feature to your garden? This post look at some different types of… Read more.
Plants For Containers
Learn all about container gardening: which plants to choose to create impact and how to look after them. Read more.
Gardens Without Lawns
Katie Thomas, our garden designer, shares the secrets of creating successful lawn free gardens full of colour and interest. Read more.
Landscaping Techniques for Privacy
There's something special about a private and secluded garden, a tucked away space to relax and get away from it… Read more.
Children and Gardens – A Few Ideas
Here are a few ideas on how you can make your garden interesting and engaging for children. Read more.
Gardens for Wellbeing
Gardens offer endless opportunities to boost our health and wellbeing. This blog is all about designing a garden for relaxation… Read more.
Garden Design – Adding Value to Your Home
Did you know that redesigning your garden is a great way to increase the value of your home? At ALDA… Read more.
Top Plants for Winter and Early Spring Interest
Here's an inspiring selection of winter and early spring interest plants to keep your garden looking bright and colourful through… Read more.
Reasons to Redesign Your Garden
Many of us live increasingly busy lives, and our gardens have the potential to benefit us in many ways. Here… Read more.
My Favourite Shrubs for Year-Round Interest
Here are some hard working shrubs that bring beauty to the garden throughout the year - and particularly when they're… Read more.
Native Plants
Encouraging biodiversity and wildlife into our gardens is a current hot topic in the landscaping and horticultural industry. Our towns… Read more.
Screening Plants & Ideas for Confined Spaces
Get inspiration and learn about plants suitable for screening in smaller gardens. Read more.
Where to Use Roses
Roses are a great choice for contemporary gardens, and can be used in a variety of situations to create impact.… Read more.
Types of Roses
Roses are some of the most popular and beautiful garden plants. Here's a simple guide to some of the favourite… Read more.
Wide Borders – How to Make Them Work
Wide deep borders can present a challenge, but they also offer lots of scope for impact and creativity. Here's some… Read more.
Shutter Screen Fencing: A Contemporary Screening Solution
Shutter Screen fences are becoming increasingly popular with our clients as an attractive and contemporary screening option. Read more.
Laying A New Patio: What’s Involved?
Have you every wondered all the stages we go through when laying a new patio? Here's a quick look at… Read more.
An Introduction to Garden Lighting
As the evenings draw in, magically transform your garden after dusk with lighting, and create beautiful effects to enjoy in… Read more.
Types of Garden Lighting
Here's a useful guide on some of the popular garden lights available and where to use them. Read more.
Garden Screens
Whether they take the form of a hedge, fence, trellis with climbers or a strategically placed tree, screens are an… Read more.
Gardens & Hot Weather: A Guide
A selection of our previous articles looking at everything from drought tolerant plants to what to do with your lawn… Read more.
Planting for Pergolas
Structures such as pergolas are brilliant for creating a focal feature in the garden - even more so when they… Read more.
Dealing With Severe Garden Drainage Issues
If your garden is frequently flooded or waterlogged, you will know how frustrating it can be. Land drainage systems can… Read more.
Pergolas and Archways
A pergola or archway is the perfect feature to incorporate into a garden design. It will add height and year-round… Read more.