Winter can feel like a pause button in the garden. Yet from a garden designer’s point of view, winter is not an ending, but a valuable reset of the entire gardening year. Contrary to popular belief, your friend or neighbour’s garden that feels effortless in summer and seems to “just work” when the sun shines are almost always the result of decisions made months and months earlier! That’s because winter planning removes urgency from the process. It replaces reactive planting w

Our designer David ’s personal motto is, “It’s all about the plants.” And over the years, that idea has evolved and deepened. Today, “plants” also means the vital, bustling life of pollinators that sustain them, and vice-versa, because bees, butterflies, hoverflies and the likes are the heartbeats of a thriving garden. For DK Garden Design, we don’t just think of cultivating a pollinator-friendly garden as an aesthetic choice, we see it as a meaningful contribution to the sur

The most successful garden designs marry two things: gardens that read as carefully composed, year-round spaces but function as healthy habitat for pollinators—such as bees, butterflies, hoverflies, moths, beetles and birds. Our multi-award-winning Eco Garden in Worsley, Salford  exemplified this approach. The garden was recognised with a Silver Award  at the 2018 APLD International Landscape Design Awards, where it was hailed by the judging panel as “a stellar illustration o

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