It’s beautiful and sunny now with a white carpet of snow everywhere, but it’s only pretty in your garden and the woods. On the roads cars are stuck and drivers are bored.

Check your shrubs aren’t laden down with wet heavy snow, as it can break the branches. Just give them a gentle shake to remove the snow. And watch out for snow falling off a roof or gutter onto your pants or pots. It’s heavy and with smother or break your plants. Most winter flowering shrubs and flowers will bounce back once the snow is gone.

It’s pretty but cold with snow and ice everywhere. So keep off your garden!

Have a look at your garden, and see if you would like to change anything.

All of it? Just one bit?

Over the next few months I’ll be working on this site and putting up pictures of gardens that I have worked on. You might like to use some of the ideas and en-corporate them into yours.

Or you may just be inspired! Or you may want me to help!

Some are big landscaping projects, others are just a re-planting of existing beds.

Be brave, dabbling probably won’t get you the garden you want.

You need to make a plan of what you’d like, and then either dig out what’s there and re-plant what you’d like, if it’s just a border. Or get a landscaper in to use a mini-digger.

For the first time in ages it’s lovely to see the soil baked dry, plants wilting, and water butts empty, and late summer descends. Borders that are established, or were planted early in the year should be in full flower now, and lovely to look at. It’s worth taking photos and making notes of what has done well (so yo can repeat it) and what hasn’t (so you can sort it out). You can take seeds from plants that have finished, and then cut the flower heads down if you want everything neat and tidy, or leave them alone for the wildlife to use. many useful insects overwinter in dead flower heads, and birds eat the seeds over the winter.

Spring is here and crocuses are blooming everywhere under the snow, so you might like to be thinking about getting out into your garden to see what’s been going on this Winter.

Garden Design Ideas

Having a garden that suits your needs means you enjoy being in it, whatever the time of year. Garden Design Ideas can help you maximise your enjoyment from your garden, whether you want to relax with a cup of tea, or play an energetic game of football. Some gardens end up being a mill stone for the owner, but by thinking about garden design ideas you will be able to have the space you want, and to be able to enjoy being in it.

Firstly you should look at your garden and briefly note what you like, and don’t like, and what you would like to have. Look for a picture in a book or magazine that gives an image of the sort of garden you’d like, or think of friends’ gardens or places you have visited. The elements that you like are all garden design ideas for you to plan to have.