I’m Tony Harding and I’m the Owner of Seasoned Garden Designs. I have a professional horticultural background that started well over 40 years ago. When it comes to plants, I can advise you on every aspect of gardening.
“No garden space is ever the same, it will always have something different to next door”
I began working with plants as a Plant Grower and Retailer in our family landscaping business, WD & B Harding & Son (1980 – 1995). Over the years, I gained a City & Guilds in Landscape Practices, a Royal Horticultural Society Qualification and a Level 3 in Horticulture & Garden Design.
“I have always enjoyed the challenge of putting different elements of the garden together to create a further living space”
From 1995 – 2011, I ran my own nursery and garden centre – Four Winds Nursery in Sharnford, Leicestershire. I found myself giving advice to the public on plants including choice, position and planting partners. This inspired me to start my own garden design business and in 2021, ‘Garden Adviser’ was born.
“I enjoy transforming a space; from a few words in the client brief to bringing a client’s aspirations into reality”
In summer 2014, one of our garden designs was awarded the RHS Gold Award at the Gardeners World Live Show 2014. Our brief was to create a space as close to as nature intended and as a tribute to fallen soldiers in WW1.
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Poet’s Final Rest
Nothing conjures the horror and the romantic notions of the First World War more vividly than the works of our war poets. Here on the edge of a woodland glade our poet sits and writes what will be his final work. Far off in the distance the clacking and booming of fighting reminds him of what lies ahead, but in this spot, for just a time, he is lost in the past, dreaming of home, and love. Behind him the calm of the woods offer tranquillity, his fear of what lies ahead soothed away by the cool caress of fern and leaf. Before him one last meadow with its wild margins alive with life and colour fill his heart with optimism that one day he’ll see England again. He closes his notebook and begins his final march towards an unknown fate. Unlike the soldier, his poem made it home. It joins countless others among the National Collection of war poetry at the Library of Birmingham. It is here in Birmingham, among his comrades, that our poet finally comes to rest.
This client asked me to help with bringing some interest to the garden, they wanted to introduce a wildlife element to the garden with a greenhouse to produce flower and vegetable seedling. I carried out a site survey plotted all…
This garden has taken shape over a period, it is a new build set in its own grounds, “initially was a field”. Due to a limited funds to spend on this garden and the ambition to carry out the work…
This projects ambition was to bring to life to a garden of a grade 2 listed building near Melton Mowbray. With some sympathetic planting to this quarter of an acre site, introducing substantial borders with perennial and structural planting to…
