greencube garden and landscape design, UK

The enchanting but often overlooked hoverflies are out on the fennel in our dry border. Great pollinators. We think the first image is a  Syrphus ribessi   https://www.discoverwildlife.com/how-to/identify-wildlife/how-to-identify-hoverflies/ This dry border contains lots of self seeding plants including Cephalaria  gigantea, Foeniculum vulgare, Verbena bonariensis. The ornamental grass in the background is Calamagrostis 'Karl Foerster'. Its a wonderful border full of movement, I'm keeping a look out for a Hummingbird Hawkmoth, not seen one this year in our garden.

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...