Quick and easy trellis Fans
A step-by-step guide for making
this attractive and practical feature
for your fence or wall.
An Englishman's Garden Adventures
A step-by-step guide for making
this attractive and practical feature
for your fence or wall.
Here’s a guide to how I built my own long-lasting, modern styled, timber fence on a budget. Hopefully you will find some inspiration and useful DIY tips.
Over the years I have ended up with a lot of topiary in my garden. A majority of this is in the form of … read more
Nothing is easier to train into an espalier form than the Fire Thorn (Pyracantha). If you want to get in some practise before launching … read more
Background Ideas I am in the process of repurposing and revamping the vegetable garden. It’s not really going to be a vegetable garden anymore. … read more
Three examples of sturdy, long-lasting, DIY trellis panels TRADITIONALLY, trellis is any open framework used to partition areas of a garden or support climbing … read more
Trellis Panels in the top section of this 2m fence improve the look, adding texture and visual interest. I used trellis panels to reduce … read more
This is the latest bed I have added to my garden. It is made out of a new kind of wood called Accoya which … read more
The new outdoor kitchen with gas BBQ, sink and tap is finished and christened. (Well, nearly finished: there’s still the cupboard to finish, but … read more
Recently we had some friends over for a lunch party and without prompting, two of the male guests, (why is it a bloke thing? … read more
Out and About in Sussex, England: musings on creative pruning Most of the hedging in my garden is in the formal, rectilinear style, but I … read more
The centre piece of my vegetable garden is this formal pond, which was started in 2012. It’s overall size is about 6′ x 11′, … read more