Cheat Sheet: Tips to Building A Garden without the Know-How or Budget

How We Grow Happy, Healthy Gardens on the Smell of an Oily Rag and our Best Tips on How Not to Waste Money while you're Starting Out.

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Times are tough out there and everyone is feeling it but money, or a lack of it should never be a barrier to creating a great garden, just as space should not nor in my opinion, Know-How, I learn a lot by doing but how do you build big gardens when you don’t have a big budget and how can many of these ideas be scaled down for a backyard paradise or even a botanical escape on a balcony? How do you avoid wasting what little money you do have along the way of figuring it out?

The truth is, you can create a garden anywhere, even if your home resembles the shoebox Hugo and I used to call home in our inner-city Sydney days with a small balcony and your bank balance is flatlining and your understanding is limited as ours was for all the years we were creating our first big garden together at Little Oak on 32 acres in Southern Tasmania.

All you really need is enthusiasm and patience and the willingness to try. We carried over all of the learnings from Little Oak and my years in horticulture after my love of gardening sent me back to school and into nurseries, to our new home and garden here at Moorfield and it has made what is a huge project, a lot less costly and it’s vision, more clear. Many of our publications cover the subject matter we will cover here, in great detail as this is how we do what we do but we thought a more distilled version for those trying to get their head around where and how to start thinking about their own space and how you might have success without spending a fortune.

What we don’t cover here you will find more indepth information in our Cheat Sheets, (Moor)Field Guides and Garden Guides