Karen Gimson Landscape Design and Planting

17/07/2025

16/07/2025

🍒 It’s National Cherry Day!
Whether you’re growing your own or picking up a punnet at the market, today’s the perfect excuse to celebrate this juicy summer favourite.
Did you know you can grow cherries in the UK - even in smaller gardens?
Here are a few sweet tips:
🌳 Choose a compact variety like ‘Stella’ or ‘Sunburst’
☀️ Plant in a sunny, sheltered spot
🫙 Net your trees — birds love cherries too!
🌸 Enjoy spring blossom, then summer fruit
Not growing your own yet? Maybe this is the year to start!
We’d love to see your cherry trees, harvests or bakes — tag us in your pics or stories 🍒📸
And don’t miss the cherry chocolate brownies recipe by in next week’s GN – it’s as delicious as it sounds!

08/07/2025

08/07/2025

Very happy to be a team member at Garden News. The UK’s biggest- selling gardening magazine. It’s almost like a huge friendly garden club for readers. So grateful for everyone’s loyal support.

Hot off the press! 🔥🌿
Our latest issue is bursting with summer garden inspiration – and it’s a blooming good one!
🌙 .writer sniffs out the scent-sational stars of the evening garden
🌾 embraces the frothy charm of will-o’-the-wisp plants
🌹 Val Bourne reveals the roses that wildlife will love
🌿 Pete McDermott of shows us how to create a happy, holistic garden
✂️ Martin Fish shares a shrub-pruning masterclass
🪴 Debi Holland plants up edible containers
🌱 Rob Smith is busy in the kitchen garden
🍫 treats us to chocolate sponge & strawberry pots
🌸 And ’s Sara Rittershausen shares a fresh way to grow orchids!
Phew! We’re exhausted just telling you about it!
📚 Grab your copy and dig in – it’s a garden-lover’s feast!



19/11/2024

So pleased to be asked to host this course at Barnsdale Gardens. There will be a talk and slide show, a ‘walk and talk’ around the cut flower plot at Barnsdale, a floristry demonstration and a hands-on workshop where you can make your own hand-tied bouquet and jam jar posy to take home. A propagation and seed sowing demo and you can take home some seeds and bulbs you’ve planted to get you started growing your own cut flower patch. It even includes a cream tea! Would make a lovely Christmas / birthday present idea! Can’t wait to get started!

An talk with slides, make your own jam jar posy and hand-tied bouquet to take home. A sowing and propagation demonstration and take home some pots of seeds.

23/08/2023

Enjoyed chatting to Ben Jackson for the gardening segment on BBC Radio Leicester today. You can listen again on the i-player or smart speaker. Gardening chat is at 3.09pm on the timeline. It’s on every Wednesday afternoon. Have a great day everyone

23/06/2023

Many thanks to Ragdale Hall Spa for offering a wonderful prize and fantastic support for the fund-raising project. Also thank you Burgon & Ball for the gardening tools, and Dorling Kindersley for gardening books. Please get in touch with me or Alice, Libby and David if you can help us with any garden products for the mega raffle or wish to make a donation towards this amazing project. We are all so grateful for your help. All proceeds to Nottingham Breast Cancer Research Centre.

20/04/2023

Another fabulous, top-quality garden project by David Greaves Landscape Design & Construction. Highly recommended. Well done David.

If you can dream it, we can make it! We don't just do kitchens - we also do stone for hearths, bathroom vanity tops, windowsills and outdoor kitchens like this one:

Call us to talk about your next project: 01949 869182.
Outdoor kitchen by our friends at David Greaves Landscape Design & Construction

25/02/2023

Really stunning work by David Greaves Landscape Design & Construction. I can highly recommend David and the team.David built all my gardens for 20 years. I wouldn’t work with anyone else. Every customer was 100 percent happy and I still get messages from them saying how much they enjoy spending time in their gardens. If you are wanting the best, David and the team can make it happen.