Wild Way garden design guide
Everything you need to create a contemporary wilder garden that puts nature at its very heart, creating a closer connection to the world for personal wellbeing, joy and modern style
Fulfil your potential as a gardener with easy to follow advanced garden design guides using the Wild Way’s new nature-led plant community techniques. Suitable for beginners and more experienced gardeners learning new methods.
Plan a garden
How to get started with deciding how best to set out a garden
Creating concepts
Simple fun methods for helping you draw out ideas for a garden’s potential
Plant community design
Advanced gardening that is not only sustainable but permanent, long-lasting and regenerative
Wildlife ideas
Easy steps to enhance a garden to help increase wildlife populations
Style
Ideas for nature friendly gardens that are uncompromising on timeless design
How to grow wildflowers
Learn how to sow, grow and manage wildflowers with advanced Wild Way methods
Exotic plants
Cultivated plants that are also excellent for supporting wildlife
Plants for specific uses
Plants used for particular purposes in a nature-led plant community
Sustainability
Guides and thought pieces around true sustainability in gardens
Planting plans
Example planting plans for you to replicate
Perennial vegetable planting plan
My style of planting plan design is to use representative simple coloured circles to the final width of the plant using semi-transparency to see through them. The colour reflects either the main flower or leaf colour and they overlap as they will in real life, looking like a collage. Since sharing online and in my book
Case studies
Examples of nature-led plant community designs
Mixing shade and sun plants
The very small garden of this stylish new build by Gagarin architects in the grounds of a stunning mill conversion had multiple challenges to design around. Sitting on the top of a hill in the Pennines it is exposed to the strongest winds the UK can throw at us, is overlooked by apartments opposite and while it can be baked by direct sun in the morning, is in full shade the rest of the day.
Shade loving flowers for pollinators
In this planting design case study I’ll focus on a small 5m x 4m shaded corner of a larger garden. The plants used in this space could be replicated in the same size space or smaller by planting fewer of each plant.