Author Archives: NMA

This terraced house driveway is south facing and was in need of greening up giving the house more kerb appeal and to disguise some of the broken tarmac. Square timber planters and terracotta pots gave a good area of planting, but I also wanted to bring in some height and a moveable planter which couldContinue reading “Making the most of a small space”

My son used to love Bob the Builder when he was tiny and I did rather like the repetitive use of their tag line, ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’. I always hoped that maybe instead of becoming part of the throw away society that we seem to have grown into, ‘Can we fix it?, Yes we can’,Continue reading “Reduce, reuse, recycle”

It is mid April and spring has well and truly sprung here in Sheffield. Seedlings are rapidly growing all over sunny window ledges and in greenhouses; cold frames contain new plants to harden off ready to plant out, and the excitement of the season to come, creating a happy bubble around most gardeners! If youContinue reading “Spring has sprung”