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SUSSEX PRAIRIE GARDENS RETURNETH

SUSSEX PRAIRIE GARDENS RETURNETH

by Carole Jordorson | Oct 20, 2018 | Garden Tour, Long Border, Prairie Style

I edited the pictures from this visit on a very raining Saturday afternoon and quite frankly it had me wanting to book a holiday immediately! It was such a beautiful afternoon in early autumn…

GREAT DIXTER

GREAT DIXTER

by Carole Jordorson | Mar 21, 2018 | Arts & Crafts, Garden Tour, Long Border

I have to admit, I was a teensy bit over excited going to Great Dixter for the first time. I’d read Christopher Lloyd’s book on secession planting earlier in the summer, so I was desperate to see the gardens for myself.

AMISFIELD WALLED GARDEN

AMISFIELD WALLED GARDEN

by Carole Jordorson | Aug 23, 2017 | Garden Tour, Long Border, Walled Garden

The gardens were part of Amisfield Park House’s estate, a Palladian mansion dating from the 1750’s. The house was demolished in the 1920’s but that grounds remain with a dovecot, stables, summer house and of course The Walled Garden.

RHS WISLEY – A FIELD OF DREAMS

RHS WISLEY – A FIELD OF DREAMS

by Carole Jordorson | May 30, 2017 | Garden Tour, Long Border, RHS

To my utter shame this was my first time visiting RHS Wisley but it won’t be my last and I was already planning my next visit half way round.

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As part of my own personal journey as a Garden Designer, I plan to visit as many gardens as possible (in the capital letter – destination sense, not any old garden) to gain more knowledge and experience. There is absolutely nothing that compares to seeing first hand, plants in their appropriate setting and planted in combination. I think it goes without saying that gardening is most definitely a profession where you are ALWAYS learning.

My intention was always to take pictures, as a reference, and the blog just sprang out of that, I’m gregarious and a sharer, so it feels like the most natural thing for me to do. Plus many of these gardens survive on their entrance fees and donations, so if I can help inspire others to visit then no bad thing!

I am interested in design in general especially mid-century modern buildings and interiors so I may share other things that inspire me but mostly the blog will be about lovely gardens and plants. I’m planning to post one a month in season (April – Sept) and less frequently out of season (Oct-March) but don’t hold me to that, as I am a wee busy bee.

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  • Interior Design Tricks That Can Help You Design Your Garden – Part 1
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  • Prospect Cottage; a Study in the Artful Use of Flotsam

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Hi, I’m Carole Jordorson BSc, Dip. I love a challenge and feel that the best design ideas come from solving a problem or making the most of what you’ve got. I do believe that the garden is another room in your home and I very much live by that mantra in my own 1960s house, with its picture windows straight onto the garden which needs to make me happy all year round!

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This is my business mantra 👍🏻 What is your This is my business mantra 👍🏻
 
What is yours?
 
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It goes without saying that we need to be conservi It goes without saying that we need to be conserving water in our gardens at the moment, the heatwave created havoc and the hot weather is set to continue. ⁠
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Here are 5 ways to make better use of water in your garden:⁠
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💧	Water early in the morning or late at night so that the water doesn't evaporate in the heat of the day before it can reach the roots⁠
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💧	Leave plants and shrubs dry until they show signs of wilting – watering too often can keep roots shallow and weaken plants⁠
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💧	Weed regularly and it will make sure that watering helps the plants and not the weeds⁠
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💧	Prioritise young plants and seedlings - more established plants will survive longer periods without water⁠
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💧	Don't waste water on paths and patio.⁠
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What gets you out of bed everyday? ⁠ ⁠ For me What gets you out of bed everyday? ⁠
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For me it’s delivering finished results for my clients, here are a few of my recent favourite Before and After transformation…
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Love Parks Week starts today! ⁠ ⁠ This initiat Love Parks Week starts today! ⁠
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This initiative is organised by ‘Keep Britain Tidy’, an independent charity with three goals:⁠
✨ To eliminate litter⁠
✨ To end waste ⁠
✨ To improve places ⁠
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This means more to us than just picking up litter. It means creating clean beaches, parks and streets. It means creating sustainable practices and eliminating unnecessary waste.⁠
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Check out the website www.keepbritaintidy.org for more information.⁠
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My favourite local park is @BeckenhamPlacePark. It was a golf course and public garden when I first moved to Beckenham 7 years ago, which was an odd mx. It then had a big makeover with Lottery funding about 4/5 years ago and was an absolute godsend to the whole community in lockdown. ⁠
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The park was originally the Cator Estate and the house in the picture was the family seat, the grounds were designed by Capability Brown and the new lake is a replacement of the one Capability once designed…so there’s even a garden design link. ⁠
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This was a tricky project as both the front and ba This was a tricky project as both the front and back gardens were shallow and wide, with the house sitting right in the middle of the plot. The existing laurel hedge was huge taking up about 16m2 from the back garden. There was also a slope to contend with and privacy issues as the house looked down onto the neighbours.⁠
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To resolve the challenges: ⁠
•	We used pleached hornbeams trees for screening⁠
•	Added angled beds to break up the horizontal lines⁠
•	Built a bench running off the steps to balance the height⁠
•	Placed seating areas in each corner to make the most of the aspect ⁠
•	Added a garden room in the dead space on the shady side of the plot⁠
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And… Ta-da! 🙌🏻⁠
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If you’re looking to transform your garden, DM for a chat.⁠
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#GardenChallenges #PleachedTreeScreening⁠
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Watch the Weeds!⁠ ⁠ As the weather gets warmer Watch the Weeds!⁠
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As the weather gets warmer, the weeds come out, but there are ways of deterring them from growing in your garden. ⁠
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I recommend the following:⁠
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🍃 Applying mulch, to suppress weed germination.⁠
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🍃 Weed after it rains when the soil is moist, so they are easier to get out roots n all. Some weeds can re-grow from the roots.⁠
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🍃 Add groundcover plants, not only does this give you lovely full looking borders but the plants suppress the weeds, reducing their seeds access to sunlight and water to germinate.⁠
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Media Source: https://unsplash.com/photos/BLQ1075NRZ0⁠
Photo by AT on Unsplash⁠
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#Weeds #Mulch #Germinate #GroundcoverPlants⁠
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MY LIFE IN JOBS:⁠ ⁠ Like many others my first MY LIFE IN JOBS:⁠
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Like many others my first job was in a pub in Glasgow. It was famous for its selection of malt whiskies to which I developed a good working knowledge off although I never liked the taste then or now…⁠
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I then moved to London and worked in publishing, for a technology print magazine. There were dozens of them back then! I learned so much about how to be a business professional; selling skills, marketing, negotiation and technology which lead me to my next job;⁠
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Online media starting at AOL back in the late 90s, it was an incredibly exciting and stressful time in equal measure! With the company changing and growing almost weekly although I did learn to embrace change which has stood me in good stead.⁠
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I then decided I was only half way through my working life and wanted to follow my creative passions more so, I became a freelance consultant, freeing me up to follow my other passion as an interior designer which eventually lead me to study garden design and the rest is history so to speak!⁠
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What's your job story?⁠
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#LifeInJobs #CreativePassion #Professional⁠
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Interior design tips you can apply to your garden Interior design tips you can apply to your garden - Part 2 ⁠
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In summary: ⁠
💜  Height – draw the eye upward to add visual interest at various height levels⁠
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💜  Broken Plan – create partial rooms within your space to add intrigue ⁠
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💜  Lighting – think practical task lighting, as well as softer lighting to create relaxing entertainment spaces⁠
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💜  Planting – the icing on the cake which should tie in with your design style⁠
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💜  Colour – think of the colour wheel, to create calm or vibrant colour schemes and don’t forget the foliage!⁠
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Link to the full blog in my BIO: ⁠https://linktr.ee/design_heights⁠
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And part 1 if you missed it in my BIO too: https://linktr.ee/design_heights⁠
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#InteriorDesignTips #GardenDesignTips⁠
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🌿 Fact Find:⠀ To kick off, the garden needs t 🌿 Fact Find:⠀
To kick off, the garden needs to be surveyed, this may involve a surveyor. I normally meet with you via Zoom and take a detailed brief. I have a questionnaire I walk through to make sure nothing is missed. ⠀
 
🌿⠀Design:
Once confirmed I start the design process. This can take a few weeks, as creativity involves thinking time, plus often research is required. ⠀
 
🌿⠀Presentation:⠀
When the Design Concept is finished, I present this to you, this includes taking you through a plan of the new garden design and a presentation, with lots of ideas on options, materials, features and planting. ⠀
 
🌿⠀Tendering:⠀
Once you’ve signed off on the finalised design, this information is then used to create the specification. Enabling quotations from prospective Landscapers. I have a roster of excellent professionals I use regularly but I can work with whomever you wish.
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I’m now taking bookings from October onwards.
DM me to chat about your garden needs!
 
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My first garden was my parents’ garden. ⁠ ⁠ My first garden was my parents’ garden. ⁠
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I received a tiny greenhouse, peat pots and seeds as an Xmas present at the age of 4. ⁠
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The following summer I busted out the kit and made a start on growing nasturtiums. ⁠
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Pretty basic but they grow so fast and are so colourful what kid can’t get excited by them. Plus they produce seeds which grow into more plants which I really loved! ⁠
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Not only is this one of my earliest memories it’s also when I got the gardening and biology bug...⁠
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Last month I visited Great Dixter Gardens, in Nort Last month I visited Great Dixter Gardens, in Northiam, East Sussex. ⁠
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Great Dixter was the family home of gardener and gardening writer Christopher Lloyd. I attended a wee course with the head gardener @fergusmustafasabrigarrett which was truly inspirational. ⁠
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I picked up the following top tip:⁠
If you want to have self-seeders like foxgloves, fennel, verbena and cowslips in your garden. You shouldn’t mulch those areas so the seeds can get exposure to the light and germinate. If you have to mulch, then turnover the soil in the area you want them to propagate to bring the seedbank to the surface. ⁠
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So obvious but I could never figure out why my foxgloves never seeded themselves!⁠
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Have you visited Great Dixter yet?⁠
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Check out the link in my BIO https://linktr.ee/design_heights⁠
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#GreatDixter #Inspiration #BeckenhamGardenDesigner #CreatingDreamGardens #ElevatingGardensToNewHeights #GardeningLife #GardenOfTheGods #GardenBlog #GardenBlogger #DesignHeightsGardens #GardenDesignBlog #DesignHeights #BeckenhamGardenDesigner #ElevatingGardensToNewHeights #EnjoyYourGarden #LoveOfGardening #GardenStyles #GardenerWithPassion #GardenLife #GardenLove #GardenLover #GardenDesigner #GardenDesigners #BeckenhamGardens #Beckenham #Pettswood #Chislehurst #Hayes⁠
We’ve finished the build and planting on a numbe We’ve finished the build and planting on a number of projects this year so I’m now taking bookings for October onwards, DM me to arrange a chat, if you’re looking to transform your garden.

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Here’s a #Flashback of an awards dinner at Gover Here’s a #Flashback of an awards dinner at Governor House, Mayfair, when I worked for Lycos, the online media company. I ran a team of 12 people looking after sales and operations. ⁠
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As well as the fantastic team this pic also included some movers and shakers in the industry at the time. Hoping to catch up with the legends that are @FaithCNY and @elie7049 soon!⁠
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I loved my hair that night! 😍 but it took 2 hours at the hairdressers and made us all late!!⁠
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I loved my time there, but I don’t miss it. ⁠
It's a garden for me!⁠
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#Flashback #AwardsDinner #Lycos #BeckenhamGardenDesigner #CreatingDreamGardens #ElevatingGardensToNewHeights #GardeningLife #GardenOfTheGods #GardenBlog #GardenBlogger #DesignHeightsGardens #GardenDesignBlog #DesignHeights #BeckenhamGardenDesigner #ElevatingGardensToNewHeights #EnjoyYourGarden #LoveOfGardening #GardenStyles #GardenerWithPassion #GardenLife #GardenLove #GardenLover #GardenDesigner #GardenDesigners #BeckenhamGardens #Beckenham #Pettswood #Chislehurst #Hayes⁠
Some of you already know I was an interior designe Some of you already know I was an interior designer before I transitioned into a garden designer. I’ve written a 2-part blog which gives some interior design tips you may be familiar with that you can apply to your gardens too.⁠
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In part 1 we tackle how to approach; your home, your style, your lifestyle, layering and sweet-spots. ⁠
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Check out part 1: link in my BIO https://linktr.ee/design_heights⁠
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#Blog #LifeStyle #SweetSpots #Layering⁠
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Front Garden of House in Sunridge Park, Bromley ⁠
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As a garden designer I offer a transformation service, however some projects are more transformational than others and this front garden in Sunridge Park, Bromley was definitely one of them!⁠
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The clients messaged me to say that when out watering the garden they have had passers-by stop to compliment the new look ❤️⁠
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#Sunridgepark #Bromley #KerbAppeal #LowMaintenancePlanting⁠
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