Tag Archives: garden structures

Julie’s Garden

Posted on June 12, 2019 by greenbenchramblings

Jude and I enjoy our monthly summer visits to gardens with fellow members of the Hardy Plant Society Shropshire Group but in addition we visit other gardens with our mini-group colleagues. The mini-groups are sub-groups of the main county group … Continue reading →

Posted in climbing plants, garden design, garden fun, garden photography, garden ponds, garden pools, garden seat, garden seating, gardening, gardens, Hardy Plant Society, ornamental trees and shrubs, outdoor sculpture, sculpture, Shropshire, spring, spring gardening, village gardens, water in the garden | Tagged epimedium, garden pond, garden ponds, garden sculpture, garden structures, outdoor sculpture

Return to a favourite garden – Wollerton Old Hall

Posted on January 27, 2017 by greenbenchramblings

We are lucky living where we do with the choice of top quality gardens for us to visit and enjoy. The counties of Shropshire, our home county, and its neighbour Herefordshire are home to some real gems from tiny back … Continue reading →

Posted in colours, garden design, garden photography, garden ponds, garden pools, garden seating, gardening, gardens, gardens open to the public, hardy perennials, Shropshire, water in the garden | Tagged archways, garden arches, garden structure, garden structures, gardens of Shropshire, hot border, hot borders, hot colours, hot garden, September, Shropshire, Shropshire gardens, Wollerton Old Hall | 4 Comments

My Garden Journal in December

Posted on December 29, 2016 by greenbenchramblings

Welcome to the final monthly look inside my Garden Journal 2016, when we see what I entered in it during the month of December. Then it will be time to close the 2017 Garden Journal for now, but we share … Continue reading →

Posted in colours, garden design, garden photography, gardening, gardens, hardy perennials, light, light quality, ornamental trees and shrubs, outdoor sculpture, Shropshire, trees, Winter Gardening, winter gardens | Tagged acers., agapanthus, bark, bark colour, bark patterns, December, garden structures, mahonias, ornamental trees, pittosporum, shrubs in winter, texture, textured bark, textures, the garden in December, trees and shrubs, winter, winter garden, winter gardening, winter shrubs | 4 Comments

Are you sitting comfortably? Part 9 of a very occasional series.

Posted on August 5, 2016 by greenbenchramblings

So here we are back in Devon to share more garden seats with you. In this collection of seats found and tested on our travels we will share with you those we discovered at the RHS garden at Rosemoor. When … Continue reading →

Posted in garden buildings, garden design, garden furniture, garden photography, garden seating, gardening, gardens open to the public | Tagged Devon, garden sculpture, garden seating, garden seats, garden structures, Gardens of Devon, RHS, RHS gardens, RHS Rosemoor, Rosemoor | 3 Comments

Replacing the garden arches at Avocet

Posted on February 20, 2014 by greenbenchramblings

We made the mistake when we designed the garden here at Avocet of using metal arches to span our paths and grow plants over. We have 8 arches altogether around the garden with all sorts of climbing plants over them … Continue reading →