Eco-friendly garden design – saves you money, makes your garden look special and helps wildlife

Eco-friendly garden design can save you money and gives your garden individuality. And it helps wildlife and biodiversity. Tips and ideas from Oli Haden of the Walworth Garden community garden – and some of his advice may surprise you!
00:00 Walworth Garden charity: https://walworthgarden.org.uk/
00:54 What Walworth Garden does
01:25 How do you balance eco-friendly garden design with style and cost?
02:06 Consider the eco-friendly alternatives to conventional hard landscaping
02:23 Avoid or minimise the unnecessary use of new concrete
02:46 The most environmentally friendly choice for a terrace or patio
03:06 The least eco-friendly hard landscaping for a terrace or patio
03:29 Why hardwood may be a more sustainable hard landscaping choice
04:31 Ideas for securing wood or stone hard landscaping without using concrete
05:03 What goes between pavers if you don’t have concrete?
06:11 How to minimise weeds growing between pavers
06:49 Is brick eco-friendly for patios, terraces and paths?
07:57 Is there an ideal material for terraces and patios?
08:49 Is gravel more or less eco-friendly than other materials?
09:23 Make sure patios, terraces and parking areas are permeable and that rain water can soak into the ground
10:13 What is the ideal material for paths?
11:39 Extend a terrace or path by using a different material rather than replacing it all
12:36 There is a cost to disposing of old hard landscaping – Rubble gardens
14:07 Gabions for hard landscaping
14:56 The most sustainable and eco-friendly plants
16:29 Don’t buy plants flowering out of season
16:56 What can you make a garden pond out of?
17:24 Do plastics have a role to play in eco-friendly garden design?
18:02 Choosing an eco-friendly shed or greenhouse
18:40 Buy tools for life – not throwaway tools
19:09 Where to find recycled hard landscaping and second-hand items
20:06 Rustic cottage garden video – pretty and eco-friendly: https://youtu.be/MD-lG98HwZ8

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