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Give Wavy Grain a wave at the Show

10 January 2020

Martyn Whittaker of Wavy Grain Lakeland Wood will be at the Cumbria Life Home & Garden Show for the first time in 2020. Visitors may associate this Barrow-based business with ...
Bringing the experts together at Rheged

05 January 2020

I love the Gardeners’ Question Time panel at the Cumbria Life Home and Garden Show. Lots of our visitors comment on it and seem to thoroughly enjoy it too.
It’s particularly ...
Plant specialist at Cumbria Life Home & Garden Show

29 December 2019

I love being involved in curating the garden sections of the Cumbria Life Home & Garden Show at Rheged. It’s a lot of work but also a fantastic opportunity ...
An amazing new space

13 December 2019

As some of you will know, the team at Rheged are moving things around “under the hill” at the moment. Maureen and I have seen the plans and we’d been ...
Going with the flow

14 October 2019

As the winter months approach, many will be wondering how increased rainfall will affect their gardens. The good news is that there are plenty of things that gardeners can do to incorporate some resilience and there’s advice available from local experts too.
New garden transformation

09 September 2019

A garden designer like me loves this blank page approach but it can be daunting for anyone else. Most developers leave plots with a lawn, paving and fencing and there are a number of key things that you can do to transform it.
A bit of back story

10 February 2019

We’ve always focused on our projects and clients’ gardens in our website News but we’re often asked how Buzy Lizzie Garden Design and Wildroof Landscapes began so here’s a taste of our story.
Part of the landscape

15 September 2018

Many Cumbrian gardens include steep slopes and, of course, the county is known for its rain too. We’ve learnt to work with the elements and the landscape to create stunning gardens that quickly look as if they’ve been there for years.
From Hygge to Shinrin-yoku

25 March 2017

The team from Wildroof Landscapes and Buzy Lizzie constructed a fascinating stand for the Cumbria Life Home & Garden Show at Rheged last week. Liz Newport, aka Buzy Lizzie and one of the curators of the Show, took as her theme a Japanese ‘forest bathing’ approach to relaxing gardens. You might have read about Danish hygge – comfort, cosiness and warmth – but forest bathing (or shinrin-yoku in Japanese) is a refreshing, green and invigorating alternative.
Cumbria Life Home & Garden Show 2016

18 February 2016

The full line up of experts has been announced for the 2016 Cumbria Life Home & Garden Show.
The event takes place on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 March 2016 at ...