The importance of creating a sustainable and ecological environment in your garden cannot be overstated. Residential gardens offer a unique opportunity to connect with nature, promote biodiversity, and create healthy ecosystems right outside our doors. Understanding the ecology of a garden not only enriches our own lives but also contributes to the welfare of the planet.

Residential gardens serve as vital components of nature corridors, enhancing biodiversity and providing essential connected habitats for wildlife. By enabling a network of interconnected areas to exist, connected nature corridors facilitate the movement of species, allowing them to traverse urban landscapes more easily.

Creating a wildlife garden is a rewarding way to attract and support local fauna while beautifying your space. Here is a quick guide to getting started…

Naturalistic planting is an innovative and sustainable approach to landscape and garden design that seeks to mimic the beauty and diversity of natural ecosystems. Inspired by the work of renowned garden designers like Piet Oudolf, this method emphasizes the use of perennial plants, native and near-native species, and a variety of textures and colours to create vibrant, self-sustaining environments.

In this lunchtime webinar directed at people considering embarking on the RHS’s most prestigious qualification, the Master of Horticulture award, Tom explains his motivations for studying for the award himself. Tom spoke about his background and how his career had led him to a point where the MHort became the next logical step.

Tom presented a talk on his specialist subject - the maintenance of soft landscaped areas - at the inaugural FutureHort conference at the Royal Horticultural Society’s educational hub at Wisley. (Soft landscaping is a term used to describe all the living/organic parts of a landscape - the plants, trees, flowerbeds and lawns).