How are your garden plants looking at the moment? Garden designers and horticultural consultants in and around Glasgow are often asked about health issues and general performance of existing garden plants. During lockdown Glasgow enjoyed some sunny dry weather, but normal weather has since resumed, and we have been seeing the spring flush where grass and plants grow at a rapid rate. This doesn’t just apply to your desirable plants, but weeds including invasives like Japanese Knotweed all grow like crazy at this time of year.

Garden designers and landscape gardeners in Glasgow and beyond make a point of choosing the right plant for the right place when they are creating planting plans for their garden designs. One of the many factors that garden designers need to consider is the light conditions that particular plants need to survive or thrive - you will have seen the symbols on plant labels for full sun, part sun or full shade.

Everywhere you go, garden designers seem to be offering slightly differing advice about this, but if you focus on the seven key principles of garden design, it will help guide you in the direction of fulfilling your aspirations for your garden.

Tom Angel is based in Glasgow, Scotland, and works as a garden designer and landscape gardener. He is both a chartered horticulturist as well as a fully-qualified and award-winning garden designer.

In this era of online deliveries, one area that hasn't kept up so far is the delivery of garden plants. Whilst customers may be used to visiting garden centres and selecting plants for themselves, it is an unfortunate fact of life that often the plants don't make it as they're just not happy in their new home. The benefit of having a planting plan or plant list drawn up, and then delivering the plants for you and providing maintenance instructions is self-evident. Garden designers and landscape gardeners in Glasgow can help with this - and Tom Angel specialises in this area of work.

A planting plan is a document produced as a stand-alone document, or as part of an overall garden design package, that indicates the positions and respective maximum sizes of plants within flowerbeds. Garden designers in Glasgow and elsewhere will often produce planting plans as an alternative to creating a comprehensive garden design, and for some this may represent a more affordable alternative to a full garden design package. Tom Angel is an award-winning garden designer who specialises in creating plans, offering this service nationwide as well as where he is based in Glasgow.

Landscape gardeners can be divided broadly into two categories - hard landscaping and soft landscaping. This applies whether you are looking for a landscape gardener in Glasgow or elsewhere. Hard landscaping deals with the non-living elements of your garden, and soft landscaping the living elements.