On Garden Design

By Fleur and Sachi

Making garden design practical and entertaining for those interested in gardens, plants and chatting with Fleur from @gardenswithfleur and Sachi from @department_of_gardendesign.

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July 12, 2024 Sensory Garden
How about designing a garden based on a central idea? If you crave interactive experience, stimulation and response from your garden, try framing your design thinking around all things sensory.
In this episode we chat about how choosing sensory as your central design idea guides your choice of layout, plants, materials and accessories. Whether you want to soothe or excite your senses, listen in for plenty of tips and ideas in creating a sensory garden that’s just right for you.https://www.instagram.com/ongardendesign are on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/ongardendesign
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(00:00) Intro
(05:27) Layout
(08:01) Touch
(11:32) Sight
(15:51) Smell
(20:10) Taste
(21:39) Sound
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30min
June 28, 2024 Designing a Contemporary Garden
In this episode we chat about the design elements of a contemporary garden. To create this stylish, crisp and asymmetric garden style, we give you plenty of ideas and inspiration for choosing the layout, structures, materials, accessories and plants.
It’s a great style to choose if you want an entertainer’s garden with low maintenance overheads. However, it’s not as simple as it sounds: it takes restraint and discipline to really pull this one off.
⁠Photos for this episode⁠⁠ are on Instagram at ⁠⁠OnGardenDesign⁠⁠
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(00:00) Intro
(06:50) Layout
(09:48) Materials
(14:00) Plants
(17:21) Water
(21:48) Accessories
(27:20) Structures
(29:02) Maintenance
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34min
June 14, 2024 Night Garden
Do you mostly use your outdoor spaces at night? An entertainer, moth watcher, star gazer or sun avoider? Then why not design a space that is entirely centred on the idea of engaging your garden at night?
In this episode we chat about how to make a garden particularly evocative and interesting at night. We consider how to maximise your layout, plants, lighting, materials and accessories to deliver a night garden experience that’s just right for you. And when the sun comes up, it’s still got to look good too.
⁠Photos for this episode⁠⁠ are on Instagram at ⁠⁠OnGardenDesign⁠⁠
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(00:00) Intro
(05:51) Layout
(07:53) Plants
(14:06) Lighting
(16:49) Materials
(18:32) Accessories
(21:53) Daytime
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26min
May 31, 2024 Designing Your Own Garden
This informative chat steps you through the process for designing your own garden. If you’re up for the challenge, we give you plenty of tips and ideas for assessing, arranging and styling your garden.
While we are keen to encourage you to have a go at design, we also highlight the tricky areas where it’s best to call in the experts.
⁠Photos for this episode⁠⁠ are on Instagram at ⁠⁠OnGardenDesign⁠⁠
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(00:00) Intro
(05:32) References
(06:56) Site assessment
(14:02) Site plan and functions
(16:54) Connections
(23:43) Style
(25:19) Plants
(28:45) Principles
(30:27) Tricky stuff
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37min
May 17, 2024 The Principle of Proportion
If you feel like a giant in your garden or your outdoor areas feel overwhelming or insignificant, you’re probably experiencing a problem with proportion.
In this episode we chat about practical ways to identify and achieve proportion. We discuss how to take cues from your garden’s broader context and the effect of scale, shapes, colour and foliage on achieving proportion.
This episode is the third in a series on garden design principles aimed at helping you assess your garden and create a beautiful space that works for you.
Photos for this episode⁠ are on Instagram at ⁠OnGardenDesign⁠
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24min
May 03, 2024 Designing to your Values
Personal values shape the choices we make and the lifestyle we live. So why shouldn’t values play a key role in creating a garden that reflects your principles, priorities and personality?
Join our conversation with Lachlan Richardson, a values-based garden designer, as we explore how an appreciation for awe, inclusivity and a social conscience can deliver affordable and sustainable garden design.
On his journey of self-reflection and intentional design practices, Lachlan’s approach encourages others to design gardens that contribute to a future that is worth being excited about.
Photos for this episode⁠ are on Instagram at ⁠OnGardenDesign⁠
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(00:00) Intro
(07:34) Design values
(13:25) Placeholder guide
(19:23) Cost-creativity tension
(25:28) Mistakes
(31:12) Top tips
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37min
April 19, 2024 The Principle of Balance
Is there something overpowering or dominating in your garden? It’s probably upsetting your garden’s balance and compromising its harmony, comfort and stability.
In this episode we chat about practical ways to achieve balance in your garden. We discuss how to achieve weighting without symmetry, applying mass and void and how to incorporate a pleasing composition of flow, shapes, texture and colour.
This episode is the second in a series on garden design principles aimed at helping you assess your garden and create a beautiful space that works for you.
Photos for this episode⁠ are on Instagram at ⁠OnGardenDesign⁠
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(00:00) Intro
(06:06) Indicators
(08:46) Weighting
(10:07) Symmetry & asymmetry
(15:58) Mass & void
(21:56) Balance fails
(25:43) Plants
(28:21) Colour & texture
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33min
April 05, 2024 Therapy and Wellbeing Garden Design
We intuitively know that gardens have a positive impact on mental health. When this is backed by science, it becomes even more compelling.
Join us in this gentle chat with Sue Stuart-Smith, psychiatrist, psychotherapist and author of The Well Gardened Mind as she takes us on a journey to better understand why and how gardens can be healing and restorative for mental health conditions.
Peppered with practical examples, Sue shares her research and observation of therapeutic design techniques and explains why people feel held, safe and hopeful in a garden.
Photos for this episode⁠ are on Instagram at ⁠OnGardenDesign⁠
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34min
March 22, 2024 The Principle of Unity
Why is it that some gardens just feel right? And others feel chaotic, disjointed and jarring? It’s probably all about unity.
In this episode we chat about practical ways to achieve unity in your garden. We discuss how repetition brings coherence, how taking the lead from a style, theme or genre provides a unifying language and why sense of place is an important consideration.
This podcast is the first of a series on garden design principles aimed at helping you assess your garden and create a beautiful space that works for you.
Photos for this episode⁠ are on Instagram at ⁠OnGardenDesign⁠
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(00:00) Intro
(03:24) Definition
(10:33) Repetition
(17:49) Plants
(21:45) Architecture
(23:39) Style
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29min
March 08, 2024 Rewilding: Designing for Organised Chaos
Would you like to rewild your garden AND design it to look good?
Join us chatting with Charlie Harpur about bringing back natural process to the landscape. As Head Gardener at Knepp in southern England, Charlie shares his knowledge and experience in restoring biodiversity through a mosaic of habitats.
As the keystone species in your garden, apply these practical tips and techniques to nurture your plot. Not only will you achieve an ecologically rich garden but also one with fabulous aesthetic value.
Photos for this episode are on Instagram at OnGardenDesign.
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(00:00) Intro
(04:33) Definition
(06:22) Sculpting the land
(11:17) Plant management
(15:19) Creating mosaics
(18:37) Biodiversity
(26:08) Aesthetic value
(28:52) Soil
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36min

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