Dragonfly Garden Designs

06/05/2025

Transform Your Garden into a personal haven with Dragonfly Garden Designs

Looking to give your garden the wow factor?
We can turn your garden into a stunning space to spend time in and enjoy all year round.
At Dragonfly Garden Designs, we bring 25 years of hands-on experience, creative flair, and expert knowledge to gardens across our local community.

Led by RHS-qualified garden designer Felicity Jones, and proudly a member of the Society of Garden Designers, we specialise in creating stylish, modern spaces that are as functional as they are beautiful.

Whether it’s a complete redesign, new planting or just a fresh perspective — your dream garden starts here.

We offer FREE consultations – let’s chat about how we can breathe new life into your space.

Contact Felicity on 07780 467257

15/04/2025

Warm weather + April showers = WEEDS!🌱

Weeds often show up for a reason – they can be indicators of compacted soil, poor drainage, or imbalances in nutrients. And while they might not always be welcome, some do bring benefits: attracting pollinators, protecting bare soil from erosion, and even helping to improve soil structure over time.

That said, not everyone wants to share space with dandelions or bindweed, and it can be tempting to reach for a quick fix – whether that’s a chemical weedkiller or a homemade remedy from the kitchen. But it’s widely accepted that using these – especially around children, pets, and wildlife – isn’t the safest or most sensible option.

Even natural mixes like salt and vinegar can harm more than just weeds. If it kills plants, it also harms the living things that keep soil healthy – like worms, fungi, and microbes. So while it might seem like a gentler solution, it can do more long-term damage than good.

The best long-term, wildlife-friendly solutions are still the low-tech ones:
• Pulling weeds out by the roots – yes, it takes time, but it’s highly effective.
• Smothering them with cardboard – a great way to block light and weaken weeds over time while feeding the soil as the cardboard breaks down. Just make sure not to use plastic sheeting or membrane, which can suffocate soil life and create long-term waste.

Let’s keep working with nature, not against it – and help our neighbourhood gardens and verges stay healthy, safe, and full of life.

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10/04/2025

Fancy mock-tails, nice company and comprehensive training on how to design outdoor kitchens? Don’t mind if I do!
Thanks to- Glasshouus Collective,
Society of Garden + Landscape Designers

26/03/2025

Dragonfly: Garden spotlight on-
Pulmonaria officinalis: The Bee’s Knees of Early Blooms

Meet Pulmonaria officinalis, aka lungwort—a shade-loving superstar with silvery-spotted foliage and nectar-rich flowers that help bees wake up and fuel up after winter.

Flowering from late winter to early spring, lungwort is one of the earliest food sources for honey bees, bumblebees, and other pollinators. Its clever color-changing blooms start pink and turn blue, signaling different nectar levels—nature’s way of directing the best customers to the freshest stock!

Lungwort isn’t just pink-to-blue magic—it also comes in soft whites, delicate lilacs, vibrant magentas, and deep sapphire blues, adding splashes of color to shady spaces.

This compact, clump-forming perennial grows to around 30cm high and 45cm wide (1ft x 1.5ft), making it ideal for shady borders and woodland gardens. It thrives in partial to full shade, loves moist, well-drained soil, but can handle dry shade once settled. Keep it watered in dry spells, but otherwise, it’s a fuss-free gem.

Its beauty isn’t fleeting, either. While the flowers shine in early spring, the silvery, speckled foliage keeps things interesting through summer and often stays semi-evergreen in winter, adding structure to your garden year-round.

Why You Need It:
• Vital for pollinators—one of the first nectar sources of the year.
• Tough, shade-loving, and low-maintenance—thrives where fussier plants fail.
• A stunning mix of flowers and foliage all year—from early blooms to striking leaves.

Need more plant picks or a bespoke garden plan? Let’s chat—I’ll help you create a garden buzzing with life!

26/02/2024

22/05/2023

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/may/21/a-chelsea-flower-show-garden-designed-by-darren-hawkes-for-our-darkest-days?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter =1684676554

Darren Hawkes, garden designer and Samaritans helpline volunteer, has created a space full of empathy at the Chelsea Flower Show. By Donna Ferguson

21/05/2023

I’m excited to see this at Chelsea this week🤩🐝

Happy ! Ever wondered what really happens inside a beehive? 🐝

Beezantium, The Newt in Somerset’s multi-sensory honeycomb at , offers a fascinating insight into the life of the bee and the role it plays in our ecosystems.

Designed to provide a sense of the world around us from the bee’s perspective, Beezantium explores how a colony shares information, reveals the art of the ‘waggle dance’, and explains how and why bees create wax, and the importance of honey production 🍯

Discover Beezantium at RHS Chelsea Flower Show from 23-27 May!

20/05/2023

20/05/2023

From student to Pre Registered and now on the Professional Pathway to being a Registered member.

10/09/2019

Handy Glossary of Horticultural Terms.
You’re welcome😊

09/09/2019

This little beaut is new to the Salvia family and now new to my own plant family.
Delicate purple tips and soft and bright pink flowers it’ll blend in just about anywhere.
Plant now, sun or partial shade. Drought tolerant (but performs better with a little moisture). Trim to encourage side shoots for more flowers. Cut back to approx 6 inches above ground after flowering.