Contact Home Grown Gardens

Home Grown Gardens LLP was set up by Carolyn and Lucille in 2005.

Carolyn does Garden Design, Planting plans and garden maintenance. Email info @ HomeGrownGardens.co.uk

Lucille does Nutritional Therapy and her E-mail is lucille@ homegrownhealth.co.uk

After many years of growing food, looking after gardens, cooking, eating and friendship, we are happy to share it with you.

Home Grown Gardens

Carolyn attained the RHS Level 2 in Horticulture in 2006 at RHS Harlow Carr in Yorkshire. For 2007 she attended RHS Harlow Carr's Plantsmanship and Planting Design course. In 2008 she attained the City & Guilds Level 2 in Garden Design. For 2009 she attained the Certificate in Garden Art and Design at Leeds Met University/Harlow Carr. For 2010 and 2011 she's doing the Plantsmanship and Planting Design Course run by Jane Cordingley, at Skipwith Hall. Email info @ HomeGrownGardens.co.uk

Home Grown Health

Lucille Knapp is a qualified Nutritional Therapist (Dip ION, mBANT) and a Nutritional Therapy Council Registered Practitioner. Mob: 07951 612733 E-mail: lucille @ homegrownhealth.co.uk
Member of the British Association of Nutritional Therapists (BANT) www.bant.org.uk
A Nutritional Therapy Council Registered Practitioner - the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council recognised by the Department of Health. www.ntc.org.uk

Home Grown Gardens project list:

Current project list:

• The Community Centre's new railings and patio are completed, but the bare earth beds around need a planting scheme to please users of the centre
• A tree has been removed from a 20m west facing bed, backed by a 3m Beech Hedge, what shall we plant?
• Planting, and advice for a shady 9-year old new house garden
• Courtyard and Cloister design advice for a local school
• Garden Design for a back garden that has had a new patio, and the old garden levelled by builders; a tidy up and revamp of the front garden to match the new look now the builders have gone
• Weeding and pruning of a well designed but untended town centre garden; design to make front garden fun for young children
• Planting plan for a newly built courtyard garden, and bi-annual front garden maintenance
• Weeding, pruning, and general planting advice for a well stocked town centre garden
• Patio planting ideas, and garden planting schemes
• General maintenance of a well established large town-outskirts garden
• Pruning, weeding and mulching a steep Dales garden
• Weeding, pruning and design help with a well stocked and recently replanted garden
• Pruning and planting advice for an established town edge garden
• Weeding, pruning and tidying up a large family-friendly town-centre garden
• Veg-plot advice by email and site visits
• Voluntary work at a local Horticultural charity
• Maintenance of an established town centre garden
• Lunchtime Gardening Club at a local Primary School
• Creation and maintenance of a 20mx20m vegetable and fruit plot

Previous project list:

• Planting ideas to keep neighbouring cats at bay, and replace old shrubs
• Planting ideas for a 6-year old new house garden
• Tidy up of a rambling family garden with teenagers, dog and trampoline!
• The old hedge is gone, so planting ideas to fill a 9m x 3m roadside bed
• Planting plan for a large family garden in a countryside border location
• Planting (and survival) plan for a small and sunny back garden shared with two dogs
• Plant identification, planting ideas and planting for a 50m well planned and planted garden that needs refreshing
• Garden design for established county town garden now the builders have left
• Replanting plan for a south-west facing raised bed that will have had 12 huge leylandii trees removed prior to building works starting
• Weeding, pruning, and general planting advice for a well stocked town centre garden
• Hedge replacement advice and new tree planting ideas
• Planting plan for a town centre garden with an existing Japanese theme
• Planting plan for a small sunny border  
• Planting plan and driveway revamp advice for a town centre garden
• General maintenance of a lawn dominated garden with two ponds!
• Tidy up and weeding of a town centre garden
• Planting plan for a town centre garden with two dogs!
• Planning, weeding and trimming of a Leeds-based Osteopathy practice's garden
• Garden tidy-up of a rented property to keep the Landlord happy
  
• Weeding of beds and planting of a bedding scheme for a home up for sale

Forthcoming projects:

.. Your garden?