NEWS & BLOG | Caragh Nurseries - Part 23

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September in the Garden

September is always a pivotal month of the year, especially in the garden. When the children go back to school you can guarantee we will have some fantastic weeks of weather but the evenings are cooler and a real autumnal feel creeps in and the evenings get darker, here is our choice for September Colour.

Caragh Design Studio, garden design, Perennial Garden

Colour, Styles & Scent

When it comes to choosing plants we need to learn to love colour, because the days of the pastel English country garden that looks like a watercolour painting have largely gone. Try to avoid planting only one of each thing as this will resemble a pincushion of dots.

Mature trees, Multi-stemmed trees, Niwaki, Shaped trees, Trees for small garden

Olive Trees

They are slow growing and reasonably compact so are ideal for a small garden or on a terrace and their evergreen green-grey foliage is a great lift to a garden.