One of the trickiest decisions to make when you re-landscape your garden is choosing paving. Search on any number of websites and you have to make choices about stone, finishes and colours and navigate jargon like 'riven,' 'etched' and 'dressed'. Paving is also one of the most expensive elements of a landscaping project and Read more »
I have known Nicholsons all my life, having grown up in the area in local villages with my parents still down the road. I started at Nicholsons back in the summer of 2016 on a placement year during my degree in Product Design at the University of Bournemouth. Our Managing Director, Liz, was brave Read more »
It's nearly a year since we lost my father-in-law, Roderick Nicholson, founder of Nicholsons. He may not be with us any longer but he left a wealth of ‘Roderickisms’; concepts, ideas, snippets of poetry and in the absence of recalling exactly who had created them, he would often adopt them as his own with Read more »
As gardeners, we are veterans of the biosecurity threat with more emerging pests and diseases arriving on our shores as each month passes. Last year, Dr Nicola Spence, the Chief Plant Health Officer, delivered a lecture at the Forestry Conference outlining the pests and diseases arriving in Britain to infect our native species. She Read more »
December is the month where the ‘big sleep’ typically starts for bats. They may have already started longer periods of physical inactivity referred to as ‘torpor’ during November depending on weather, temperatures and food availability. December typically sees the temperature getting colder and bats moving to their winter roosts, sometimes in small groups, but Read more »
Due to their increasing popularity, greenhouse selection has been a frequent topic of conversation amongst the Nicholsons designers recently. These decorative and practical features enable gardeners to establish productive crops and ornamental plants, regardless of the weather or growing region. Trend-setting glasshouse restaurants have increased the popularity of greenhouses to expand people’s homes, becoming Read more »
Wood For The Trees is a series created by film-maker and outdoor educator Charly Le Marchant and Tom Barnes, who is the Managing Director of Vastern Timber. The series focus on the future of UK forests, covering topics such as rewilding, woodland creation, agroforestry, and much more. Our Managing Director, Liz Nicholson, recently contributed Read more »
