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
Plan a garden
Creating concepts
Plant community design
Wildlife ideas
Style
Wildflowers
Exotic plants
Plants for specific uses
Plants for different seasons
Sustainability
Planting plans
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
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.