Follow these stylish ideas to emanate your possess Mediterranean-style garden.
Read all about Elaine Goodwin’s Mediterranean-style walled garden…
Design wall art
As a veteran mosaic artist, Elaine was means to furnish a operation of matter pieces for her garden. If you’re looking to emanate a identical character in your space, because not try your palm during mosaic design?
There’s a operation of courses on offer via a UK, from one-day rudimentary sessions to week-long courses providing some-more modernized tuition, with prices for one-day courses starting from around £85. Visit a websites Mymosaicworkshop.co.uk, Martincheekmosaics.com or Zantium.co.uk for a extensive beam to a courses available, prices and timetables.
Add mosaics or make a arbour for that Mediterranean outcome in your garden
Erect a pergola
The galvanised steel arbour in Elaine’s garden was custom-built by a internal blacksmith/designer. Timber and iron arbour kits are accessible from a operation of high travel and online retailers, and if you’re a efficient DIY-er, they’re easy to implement but a need for contracting a professional. Click here for a unsentimental step-by-step beam to building a pergola.
Consider a musical belligerent covering, such as this grey Moorland line-up scree
Consider slate
If we cruise a grass is too high-maintenance for your garden, or your space is too tiny for a lawn, select a musical belligerent covering instead such as grey Moorland line-up scree, or cruise bark, chippings, pebbles, shingle or a petrify screeded flooring. Wickes has a operation of options for all spaces and budgets, from £5 for 90 litres of bark.
Have we got a garden dilemma? Send your questions to Real Homes garden consultant Matt James…
COMPILED BY SALLY HAWKESFORD
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Featured in a Jul 2011 emanate of Real Homes
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