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Building you dream garden in Sheffield
Landscape Gardening gives a pleasure such as coming home to your own garden is like owning a piece of nature. All houses need some form of garden to be at peace with nature. Whatever the space afforded to you it is possible to create a garden that will enrich your life and be the envy of others, to say nothing about increasing the value of your property.
The wonderful thing about having a garden of your own is that you can just sit and absorb the peace that it generates and with the ready availability of professional landscape gardening advice and assistance it doesn't need to be a nail splitting backbreaking exercise, although the more you are involved in the project the more satisfaction you will obtain from it.
There are many things to consider when designing and landscaping a garden, whether you live in Sheffield or any other part of the country but the primary and essential one is "What type of garden do you want?". Gardens can be based on the plants you would like. to see, the use to which you wish to put the garden, the amount of maintenance you wish to be involved in or simply the style that catches your eye and the aesthetics behind it.
If Great Britain is the home of landscape gardening then Lancelot capability' Brown is surely the father and Chatsworth park, some 11 miles from Sheffield is the prime example although lovers of Sheffield Park in Sussex, another Capability Brown project, may disagree. Noted as both a gardener and architect, his gardens quickly became highly prestigious and landscape gardening became highly fashionable. He rejected the formal geometric style of gardening favoured by his predecessors for a more natural approach and in and age without planning regulations the world was his oyster'. He is credited with designing over 100 landscaped parks and his client list included Prime Ministers and royalty aplenty.
