{"id":373,"date":"2026-03-26T15:32:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rootandbloomgardens.co.uk\/?p=373"},"modified":"2026-08-20T15:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T15:49:14","slug":"passion-project-katy-jess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootandbloomgardens.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/passion-project-katy-jess\/","title":{"rendered":"Passion Project | Katy &#038; Jess"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"373\" class=\"elementor elementor-373\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5ccc250 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"5ccc250\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;none&quot;,&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1fccff9 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"1fccff9\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-186e0fa elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"186e0fa\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPassion Project | Katy &#038; Jess\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-355781c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"355781c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-883fba8 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"883fba8\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a78d139 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"a78d139\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-62b64a7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"62b64a7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Delivered - summer 2026<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a2cad5b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a2cad5b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Katy was the person I told first when I decided to launch Root&amp;Bloom Designs &#8211; a top secret project no one knew about &#8211; and a &#8216;Passion Project; for sure&#8230;<\/p><h1>Small Garden, Big Change.<\/h1><h2>Bespoke Garden Design &amp; Raised Bed Planting in Winnersh<\/h2><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Sometimes the best <strong>garden makeovers<\/strong> happen in the smallest spaces.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Katy and Jess had a relatively <strong>small, enclosed garden in Winnersh<\/strong> which simply wasn&#8217;t working for them.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">It was damp. It felt dark. The existing space was tired and awkward and, rather than somewhere you&#8217;d choose to sit with a coffee, it was really just somewhere outside the house.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">So our starting point wasn&#8217;t:<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>&#8220;What plants should we buy?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">It was:<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>&#8220;How can we completely change how this garden feels?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">And that&#8217;s where a combination of good landscaping, <strong>bespoke garden design and carefully considered planting<\/strong> can make an enormous difference.<\/p><h2>Phase One: Fix the garden before planting it<\/h2><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">There&#8217;s little point spending hundreds of pounds on beautiful plants if the space they&#8217;re going into doesn&#8217;t work.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">So <strong>Phase One was landscaping<\/strong>.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The old garden needed opening up and simplifying, with particular consideration given to the damp conditions and how we could make every metre of this small garden useful.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The new pale paving immediately made the space feel cleaner, brighter and larger.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Then came one of the stars of the project:<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>The large timber raised bed.<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">For a small garden, a <strong>raised flower bed<\/strong> can be a fantastic solution.\u00a0 It creates structure and height, provides a substantial volume of good planting soil and allows us to create a much deeper, richer planting scheme than simply lining a few plants along the fence.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">It also brings the plants physically closer to you, and a natural place to sit.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">And that little design idea completely changed the feeling of the garden.<\/p><h2>\u00a0<\/h2><h2><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji\" role=\"img\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/svg\/1f331.svg\" alt=\"\ud83c\udf31\" \/> Bespoke planting rather than &#8220;some nice plants&#8221;<\/h2><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Once the landscaping and <strong>raised bed construction<\/strong> were complete, we could finally get to the really enjoyable bit.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>The planting.<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">And this wasn&#8217;t simply a case of wandering around a garden centre picking things that looked pretty, and cat friendly&#8230; good <strong>planting design<\/strong> starts with the garden.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">How much sun does it get?<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Where is the shade?<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">How damp is the soil?<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">What will survive there?<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">What will thrive there?<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">How big will everything eventually become?<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">What flowers in spring, summer and autumn?<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">And what will still look interesting when nothing is flowering?<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Our aim was to create a <strong>bespoke planting scheme for Katy and Jess<\/strong>, designed around their particular garden rather than using a generic list of fashionable plants.<\/p><h2><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji\" role=\"img\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/svg\/1f338.svg\" alt=\"\ud83c\udf38\" \/> Layered raised bed planting<\/h2><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Look closely at the finished raised bed and you&#8217;ll see there&#8217;s quite a lot going on.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">That&#8217;s deliberate.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">At the back, taller planting creates height and starts softening the large expanse of fencing.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Roses provide bigger statement flowers and vertical interest.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Through the middle we&#8217;ve used flowering plants in purples, pinks, yellows and whites to create movement and repeated colour.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Towards the front, lower-growing plants and contrasting foliage soften that chunky timber edge.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">We&#8217;ve also mixed deep burgundy foliage with fresh greens, silvers and brighter lime tones.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The result is a <strong>layered planting design<\/strong> rather than a row of individual plants.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Your eye moves around it.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">And as the plants mature, they&#8217;ll begin to grow into one another and the whole raised bed should become increasingly lush.<\/p><h2>Why raised beds work so well in small gardens<\/h2><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Used properly, a <strong>bespoke raised flower bed<\/strong> can become one of the main features of a garden:<\/p><ul data-spread=\"false\"><li>Better soil and growing conditions<\/li><li>Improved drainage<\/li><li>Greater planting depth<\/li><li>Height and structure<\/li><li>Defined planting areas<\/li><li>Easier access to plants<\/li><li>More impact in a small space<\/li><li>Somewhere informal to perch with a cup of tea<\/li><\/ul><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">And in Katy and Jess&#8217;s garden, the raised bed also helps separate the lushness of the planting from the clean lines of the new paving.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Hard landscaping gives us the bones.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>Planting gives us the soul.<\/strong><\/p><h2><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji\" role=\"img\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/svg\/1f33f.svg\" alt=\"\ud83c\udf3f\" \/> Small garden planting requires restraint<\/h2><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">There&#8217;s one slight problem when you&#8217;re allowed to choose plants professionally.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>You want ALL OF THEM.<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Unfortunately, putting every plant I like into one raised bed would create something resembling a botanical car boot sale.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">So <strong>bespoke planting design<\/strong> is as much about what you leave out as what you put in.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">In a small garden, every plant needs to earn its place.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">We consider mature size, flowering period, foliage, height, spread, growing conditions and how one plant will interact with the next.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Repetition is important too.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Repeating colours, textures and varieties gives a <strong>professional planting scheme<\/strong> a sense of rhythm and stops it looking like a random collection of garden-centre purchases.<\/p><h2>And look what happened to the fence&#8230;<\/h2><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">It&#8217;s still there.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Still big.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Still wooden.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">But now?<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>You barely notice it.<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Your eye goes to the roses.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Then the purple.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Then the yellow.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Then the contrasting foliage.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Then something else catches your attention.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">As the planting grows and matures, the fence will increasingly become nothing more than the backdrop.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">That&#8217;s one of the things good <strong>garden design and planting<\/strong> can do particularly well.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">It changes where you look.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Possibly my favourite photograph from the whole project is Katy sitting on the edge of the raised bed with a mug in her hand&#8230;.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Because that&#8217;s really what all this is about.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Not paving.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Not timber.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Not even plants.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>It&#8217;s about creating somewhere you want to be.<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Before, this was a small, damp and rather uninspiring outdoor space.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Now there&#8217;s somewhere to sit.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Somewhere to look.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Colour.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Flowers.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Texture.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Life.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The garden hasn&#8217;t gained another square metre.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">But it <strong>feels bigger, brighter, warmer and considerably more inviting.<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">That&#8217;s what a successful <strong>small garden makeover<\/strong> should achieve.<\/p><h2><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji\" role=\"img\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/svg\/1f331.svg\" alt=\"\ud83c\udf31\" \/> And the planting isn&#8217;t finished&#8230;<\/h2><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">This is something I explain when giving <strong>planting advice<\/strong> to customers around Winnersh and Wokingham.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Don&#8217;t judge a newly planted garden solely on day one.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Plants need time.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The gaps you see today are tomorrow&#8217;s growth.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The roses will mature.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Perennials will spread.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Foliage will overlap.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The timber will weather.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The whole planting scheme will gradually knit together.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">We&#8217;re designing for <strong>next year and the year after<\/strong>, not simply for the photograph taken when we&#8217;ve finished planting.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">That&#8217;s why good planting design needs a little imagination.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">And patience.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Lots of patience.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f004688 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"f004688\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"580\" src=\"https:\/\/rootandbloomgardens.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG-20260608-WA0008-1024x742.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-898\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootandbloomgardens.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG-20260608-WA0008-1024x742.jpg 1024w, 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https:\/\/rootandbloomgardens.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260720_130435-1536x691.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/rootandbloomgardens.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260720_130435-2048x921.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5391843 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"5391843\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d28cf23 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d28cf23\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1>Looking for Planting Advice or Garden Design in Winnersh?<\/h1><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">We can help you work out <strong>what to plant, where to plant it and how to combine plants<\/strong> to create something that works throughout the seasons rather than for three glorious weeks in June.<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">So if you&#8217;re searching for:<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>&#8220;planting advice near me&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>&#8220;garden designer in Winnersh&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>&#8220;someone to design my flower beds&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>&#8220;raised bed planting ideas&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">or simply&#8230;<\/p><p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>&#8220;HELP! 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