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The Society of Garden Designers have asked some of their leading garden designers for predictions on garden design trends for this year.
Designer Jon Simms is expecting the "rise of porcelain in garden design, and thinks it won't be long before the demand for indoor colour creeps outdoors. He envisages a move away from using replica stone in the garden and an increase in colour choice and pattern in hard landscape materials."
We certainly are being asked for porcelain tiles increasingly in

If you're into growing your own vegetables it is ok now to start sowing, for some things.

You can put in now warm climate vegetables that need to be well established by the beginning of summer to fruit, (like tomatoes, chillies, peppers and aubergines) or long-season vegetables that need plenty of time to fatten up, (such as celeriac, brussels sprouts, sprouting broccoli, summer cauliflowers, celery and leeks.)

They'll need to be inside and with good light. If you don't have good indoor

Looking at a few of the garden design trends that the Society of Garden Designers are predicting for this year, here's one that's quite interesting:

Log walls and multiple metals....

Barbara Samitier a London based garden designer confesses to being obsessed with log walls, saying, “They can act as a feature wall, a boundary or a screen while providing a necessary habitat for insects and a wide range of wildlife.” She also expects we will be seeing more metal in the garden as it’s “such