tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56349063856831645572011-12-05T12:10:00.231ZWelcome to Stewarts Garden Design & Landscaping. We cover many areas of Dorset and offer a range of services, including Garden Consultations, Garden Design & Planting Plans, Garden Construction & Landscaping and routine maintenance for private and commercial customers. For more information please visit http://landscaping.stewarts.co.uk/Stewartshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15949040675652877659noreply@blogger.comBlogger171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5634906385683164557.post-14502598426136580572011-09-05T14:24:00.003+01:002011-09-06T10:17:15.294+01:00

Having your garden designed this autumn, built during the winter, and planted during the spring will ensure that you have your garden ready to enjoy next summer.We know that next year feels like a long way off and you will probably go through the winter and early spring without thinking about any grand plans for the garden. Its when the clocks change and the sun comes that our phone starts

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Guidance for planning a family gardenThink of your garden as an extension to your home, an outside space for all to enjoy. When planning a garden to suit the family what better way to start than to sit around a table and involve everyone? Ask your children what they enjoy most about being outside and what they would like for the garden. Compile a list of the all the ideas not forgetting your own

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Although this shrub can be seen in many gardens, because it has all year round interest, there is a good case for adding it to yours.The leaves are formed in large dark green glossy heads and are very similar to holly leaves. Fragrant yellow, long spikes of flowers are evident from November through to March and are then followed by a show of attractive deep purple berries. A good shrub to

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Two years ago I bought an end of terrace house with a small garden. The garden was in a dreadful state, had not been cared for for years, was overgrown and had no structure to it. It had a large concrete base at the end with a concrete path down the middle. The whole garden either side of the path had been raised up using big concrete edgings and to my surprise the raised areas also contained a

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JAPANESE ANEMONEThe Japanes Anemone is great for brightening up your garden in late summer and into the autumn. It is fast growing and is great in either a sunny spot or in partial shade. From August to October (depending on the variety you choose) you can enjoy blooms in white, pink and purple/pink. Fully hardy,some of them are semi evergreen. Often used in the landscaping of Japanese Gardens (

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Here we are at last with a great spell of spring weather. I have decided to include a plant I have been using myself in the past week or two, it's hopefully going to do a great job in my front garden. The Vinca, or periwinkle as it is more commonly known, is a wonderful plant for providing ground cover. I have a huge problem with weeds in a large bed in my front garden and am forever having to

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Although my lasting images of a poppy (papaver) are in great swathes in fields and distant landscapes, or as the poignant image of the British Legion, my search today for an exterior plant led me to the ORIENTAL Poppy. Not just in red, but in vibrant orange, pink, purple, yellow and white, the flowers of this plant are large and have papery exotic looking petals. They are great in herbaceous

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This time I have chosen a shrub that will probably be familiar to everyone. The camellia is a shrub with blooms from white to burgundy and with heads that can be single, double or ruffled. (A selection is available at both of Stewarts Garden Centres. Originally from China and Japan it thrives particularly well in southern England. However, unless it is east facing, it is suitable for most

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Week 2 already and I have decided to continue with the theme of winter interest in the garden. The Sarcococca (you may know some varieties as Christmas Box) is an evergreen shrub which is slow growing and bushy. Unlike last week’s Cornus with it’s coloured stems, the emphasis with this shrub is it’s heavily scented winter flower. Again, it is suitable for both private and commercial planting. (

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My name is Patricia and I work in the office of the landscaping department at Stewarts Country Garden Centre. I have been given a new challenge - to choose, research and report on an exterior shrub or plant each week. Here goes for week 1.The shrub I have chosen is the Cornus which if you are like me, you might know better as Dogwood. This shrub comes in various forms and is the ideal choice if

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Stewarts Landscaping have just walked away with the best trade stand award at the New Forest Show. Back in May we created a annual meadow show garden. Prepped in March, sown in May and it was just perfect. Full of Poppies, Coreopsis, Cosmos and much much more. Visitors were delighted by it, especially being able to wander through grassy paths surrounded by wonderful flowers. This is our forth

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Down to earth Garden designby Sue Loader, Garden designer , Stewarts Landscaping. Tel 01202 882463I have been designing gardens for 10 years now at Stewarts and have developed my own style and way of working that is a response to the needs and aspirations of our clients.With my studio in the plantaria at Gardenlands, it is not surprising that most of my clients are already Stewarts customers,

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We the Stewarts Landscaping team would like to wish all of our customers a very Merry Christmas and best wishes for 2009. The grass has finally stopped growing which is allowing us to concentrate on winter pruning, tidying and leaf clearance instead of mowing lawns across Dorset & Hampshire!For those of you whom have had your garden designed, landscaped or garden built this year by us we wish

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On one of our grounds maintenance sites in Dorset we have had some major problems with naughty badgers. They have ripped up what was once a nicely striped lawn and it now looks like a herd of elephants have been through. I never quite realised what damage could be done by these naughty animals. We have discovered that they have been digging it up to expose grubs that have been living under the

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I visited one of our big clients today in Dorset. We maintain the grounds and the interior office plants at this site. I came across my employees having a Christmas lunch in their machinery yard. They had laid it out with a table, table cloth and tea lights and were sitting down to a...no...not Roast Turkey but a Indian TakaAway. To be fair to them it was their lunch break and they certainly

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Firstly, all the very best for Christmas and New Year from our Designers, Construction and Maintenance staff.Stewarts landscapers always look forward to the New Year because the days begin to get longer and with a bit of luck the weather starts to get more co-operative again. When you look out of your window over Christmas and New Year just imagine how a make-over could transform your garden and

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Autumn fall has arrived. Why not this year recycle your leaves at home rather than burning them. You may take them to be recycled by your local waste company but instead why not recycle them in your own garden? Here are some tips:Woodland areas: Trees will love you more if you leave the leave litter alone as it will help to enrich the ground and put nutrients back into the soil and there is

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