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Meadows, summer cutting and planting combinations for the hardy gardener

greencubes garden: Our meadow is in its second year and we have enjoyed it tremendously, although it looks a bit ragged currently having had the summer chop by Mike with the petrol hedge trimmer and a tidy up by Gemma. We planted thousands of bulbs in the autumn and reaped the reward with some great additional colour and seasonal interest throughout early spring to mid summer. Here are a few images captured in the last few months: Here the allium mount everest are looking majestic above the froth of the ox-eye daisy. allium seed heads glowing in the evening sun and of course nature doing it's thing, adding self seeded foxgloves in strategic places! and now its had its summer high cut to hopefully secure some additional flowering in late summer and early autumn before I add another thousand bulbs to add even more colour for next year. Meanwhile in my kitchen garden I've been harvesting potatoes, rhubarb, courgettes, radish...

greencube garden features in decking product brochure

Our small garden in Chislehurst, Kent now features in Millboard decking's new product brochure. Our clients, a young professional couple with their first small garden, have had their garden featuring in books, magazines and brochures, seems to be very popular choice. See our media page:                    greencube media page We have had another busy week, working on a design for a family in Eynsford, a survey in Sevenoaks and in Hawkinge, Folkestone. Gemma's back from her holiday's and has been working in gardens in Langton Green, Sevenoaks and Hadlow. I visited one of our gardens under construction in New Barn this morning which is coming along nicely. Here we have introduced granite plank platforms, these will be interplanted and will create an interesting path to the main terrace at the rear that will include a fireplace, feature wall, pot platform and raised planter.  I'm looking forward to...