Small Garden Design

In this lesson, you'll learn how to create a scale drawing of your garden and how to plot the key structural features of your house.

In this lesson Butter will teach you to make the most of your sightlines and why the width of your garden borders is so important.

Butter explains how she builds a brief with a client and guides you through a set of questions so you can create your own garden brief.

In this video, Butter shows you how she uses mirrors, trellis and stone to create texture and tone in her design projects.

In this lesson Butter will teach you to make the most of your sightlines and why the width of your garden borders is so important.

If you live in a city, you might have some buildings around your boundary that you want to block from view. In this lesson, Butter explains how to use trees to block views and create a sense of privacy.

Here, Butter guides you through the process of creating structural planting using shrubs, climbers and clipped shapes.

Butter guides you through planting design in this video, and shows you how to utilise early flowering and winter flowering shrubs, as well as perennials and delicate grasses.

In this lesson, Butter introduces you to some of her favourite bulbs and discusses the best aspects for different types of perennials.

Water is a vital part of any garden, so in this video Butter explains why you should include a water feature in your space, whatever its size.

Investing in high-quality lighting can make dark winter nights much cosier. In this video, Butter guides you through some of her favourite lighting schemes.

It’s May in Butter’s garden as she guides you through the planting in her borders and reveals her wildflower meadow in full bloom.

Back in Butter’s garden, she introduces you to the concept of zoning different spaces, explains why you should make space for biodiversity and why you should work with seasonality.

In this lesson, Butter explains how to add interest to your garden by framing doorways, introducing vertical aspects and making space for wildness.

In this video, Butter introduces you to the garden of her client, Rita Konig. She also shows you how she uses mood boards in the design process and works with her clients to select plants.

In this lesson, Butter shows you how she uses mood boards in the design process and works with her clients to select plants.

Butter and Rita take a look around her finished garden and discuss why they made some of the design and planting choices that they did.

Butter guides you through her designs for a charming courtyard garden in London and explains how she made use of what was already in the space.

Butter shows you how to sketch out elevations so you can get a sense of scale in your own small garden design.

In this video, Butter takes on the challenge of designing a very small inner courtyard garden and explains how access issues made the job even harder.

Butter walks you through the finished courtyard garden and explains how she worked with the client, Jack Davidson, to choose some of its key design features.

Butter explains how lanterns and well-placed pots help Jack’s courtyard garden to really shine.

Butter guides us through the inner courtyard garden and explains how she made the most of every corner to create a lush and verdant space.