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Does your patio look the way you want? Does it work with the rest of your garden or is it dull and boring? 

The SHAPE of your patio makes such a difference to the overall look of your garden. It's often THE most overlooked aspect of garden design.

In this episode, international garden designer, Rachel from Successful Garden Design, critiques some design layout plans and offers solutions on how to improve designs.

Find out how to design a great looking patio for your garden in this brand new Garden Design Show episode...

[GDS 14] Patio shapes that improve your garden

The Successful Garden Design Show is a landscape design programme that will take you behind the scenes of what REALLY makes a garden look great. Professional garden designer and best-selling Amazon author, Rachel Mathews, will show you her secret formula to transforming your garden quickly and easily, without needing to spend a fortune.

The fortnightly landscaping show will be a mixture of dissecting designs Rachel has done for clients, the quick-sketch design challenge, where Rachel will design a viewer garden on the show. There will also be episodes featuring Rachel visiting some of the best gardens around Europe and beyond.

So if you're looking for landscaping ideas for your garden, the Garden Design Show is the perfect way for you to see exactly what can be done to enhance your garden using Rachel's simple, but effective, garden design ideas.

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In this episode garden designer Ali Conway takes you on a tour of the World's premier gardening event, the Chelsea Flower Show that was held in London last month. You'll be able to see all the latest trends from top designers in garden design.

Sticking with the theme of smaller space gardens, designer Rachel Mathews will help a friend do a roof terrace makeover and show you just what can be achieved by rearranging the space a bit.

Rachel will also give you some ideas for balcony gardens from the lovely Spanish village of Jimena de la Frontera.

[GDS 16] Small gardens and Chelsea Flower Show highlights

To see more about the Great Garden Formula 3.0 visit: http://www.greatgardenformula.com

In this episode Successful Garden Designers Rachel Mathews and Ali Conway walk you round the Cambridge Botanic Gardens to look at how to effectively repeat plant in your garden.

They also show designs they have been working on for a long garden and a wide garden.

If you'd like to visit the Cambridge Botanic Garden, take a look at their website: http://www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/Botanic/Home.aspx

You can contact Trisha (just outside of Chicago) from Roots Nursery here: http://rootsnursery.com/

Show notes are at: http://www.successfulgardendesign.com/show15/

[GDS 15] Planting ideas, long and wide garden plans

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In this episode garden designer Rachel Mathews discusses how to correctly position garden statues, sculptures and focal points. You can see the rest of her interview with artist and author Kitty Harri in the Andalusian sculpture garden in Otivar near Granada in Spain.

Rachel will then give you her tops tips on positioning focal points from a garden designer's perspective. She'll show you how you can make your garden look bigger and more interesting by the correct placement of the focal points you use.

Cheeky Plant Border Tips

You will also find out how to do a really simple trick that enables ANY plant border to instantly look better without the need for moving any plants or doing any gardening whatsoever!

What Would You Like to See Covered in Future Shows?

I'd love to get your ideas for future shows so that this can be as beneficial to you as possible. Leave a comment me know what topics you'd like me to delve into in future episodes in the comment boxes below?

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Download your FREE landscaping design guide here: http://successfulgardendesign.com/help-guide

If you'd like to see more about the online garden design courses Rachel mentions, visit: http://www.successfulgardendesign.com/courses/

[GDS 12] Garden Focal Points & Plant Border Tips

In this episode of Garden Design Show, Rachel will tell you all about how you can incorporate fruits and vegetables into your garden using stunning tips and tricks regardless of what size your garden has. She is bringing in an expert, a broadcaster and the best selling author of "Year-Round Vegetable Gardener", Niki Jabbour. 

They will also discuss Niki's new book called "Groundbreaking Food Gardens". To get you even more interested, Rachel will go through the details about the fruit producing modern courtyard she designed that is in Niki's book!

They will discuss how much a lot of people are interested in a fruit and vegetable producing garden. Another interesting topic you will also learn about is the Cocktail Garden plants where you can grow things you like to drink. 

You will be surprised what berries and edible flowers you can add to your salads that came straight from your fruit and vegetable garden. They will also talk about pollinators and wildlife, the natural side of the garden and the flowers that attract the pollinators and how you can keep them. Identify good bugs that will help you grow your fruit and vegetable garden or herb garden.

You will also see a sneak peak of Rachel's design on the fruit and vegetable producing garden, which looks very modern and no one would think that it's food producing.

The book also features a concrete and steel garden, a good way to use recycled materials and concrete is ideal for some plants. 

Before they wrap things up, Rachel asks Niki on what her advise is for people who are starting to build their own gardens and suggestions on vegetables and herbs you can mix in your garden plants.

The design show will be back later in the year - What Would You Like to See Covered in Future Shows?

I'd love to get your ideas for future shows so that this can be as beneficial to you as possible. Leave a comment me know what topics you'd like me to delve into in future episodes in the comment boxes below?

Links from this episode:
Niki's book: http://goo.gl/jeehfz

http://www.nikijabbour.com
http://savvygardening.com

[GDS 14] Patio shapes that improve your garden

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