There’s been a shift towards using more eco-friendly materials in the garden. There's no reason a beautiful garden cannot also be eco-conscious, especially with our tendency to lean towards less manicured, more wild, fairytale gardens.
Learn about the plants that are native to the area and embrace these within the design, helping to create a garden that supports a more diverse ecosystem, while still looking beautiful.
Install a water butt containing water that falls onto the roof instead of turning on a tap from the mains supply, or use a watering can instead of a hosepipe.
When peat is used in the garden, carbon is released and habitats are damaged. Keeping peat in bogs - not bags - is a crucial part of the fight against climate change. Our planet's billions of acres of peat hold more carbon than all the world’s forests combined. Use a peat free compost instead.
If all 30 million UK gardeners planted a medium-sized tree in their community, school, workplace or garden and nurtured it to maturity, they would store enough carbon equivalent to drive more than 11 million times around our planet.
