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Nick Bailey on making a new garden

BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine Podcast

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The Benefits of Using a Shrub in Your Garden

The Japanese idea of sakie which is basically the borrowed landscape. Most gardens in Japan are really quite small and so they've advocated this this idea for years. I would tend to in a smaller space go for shrubs and wall shrubs that can be kept far more sort of flat against the boundaries. Nandina Domestika  is a fabulous plant it's an evergreen but it takes on autumn color has fabulous white flowers in spring palescent berries through summer redberries in autumn and through winter.

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