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(Designers’ Special – 10) How Can Garden Designers Champion Landscape Craftsmanship?

(This article forms part of a professional advisory series for domestic garden designers, drawing on personal site inspections, specification practice and dispute analysis) Professional garden designers have an unrivalled opportunity to help raise and maintain high standards of landscape construction

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(Designers’ Special – 9) Why do Some Expensive Gardens Feel Emotionally Empty?

(This article forms part of a professional advisory series for domestic garden designers, drawing on personal site inspections, specification practice and dispute analysis) Whilst garden design can be very personal, with the same scheme appealing to some and not others,

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(Designers’ Special – 8) Should Hard Landscaping Dictate Soft?

(This article forms part of a professional advisory series for domestic garden designers, drawing on personal site inspections, specification practice and dispute analysis) There is an old adage among the landscaping fraternity – ‘Never let soft landscaping dictate hard’. This

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(Designers’ Special – 7) Why Constraints Can Produce Better Results.

(This article forms part of a professional advisory series for domestic garden designers, drawing on personal site inspections, specification practice and dispute analysis) Sometimes the best gardens emerge from constraints placed upon the designer, thereby forcing limitations, can lead to

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(Designers’ Special – 6) Has Garden Design Become Too Reliant on Surface Perfection?

(This article forms part of a professional advisory series for domestic garden designers, drawing on personal site inspections, specification practice and dispute analysis) Looking at the many images of superbly finished, high quality, polished gardens presented on Instagram and other

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(Designers’ Special – 5) What Can Garden Designers Learn From Failure Reports?

(This article forms part of a professional advisory series for domestic garden designers, drawing on personal site inspections, specification practice and dispute analysis) I have been working as a consultant and expert witness for over thirty years, acting as an

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(Designers’ Special – 4) Is Garden Design Becoming More Architectural?

(This article forms part of a professional advisory series for domestic garden designers, drawing on personal site inspections, specification practice and dispute analysis) Is garden design becoming more architectural? This question was posed at a recent seminar, where I was

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(Designers’ Special – 3) Can A Garden Design Still Be Luxurious And Also Environmentally Intelligent?

(This article forms part of a professional advisory series for domestic garden designers, drawing on personal site inspections, specification practice and dispute analysis) If detailing has become the signature of good garden design, the next challenge is whether that signature

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(Designers’ Special – 2) Why Detailing Is Becoming The Signature Of Good Garden Design

(This article forms part of a professional advisory series for domestic garden designers, drawing on personal site inspections, specification practice and dispute analysis) Garden design has undergone a transformation in recent years, especially on modern, clean-line designs where customer demands

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