Features and Advice

Geoff Stonebanks shares his favourite recipes that his visitors just love, including spinach and pine nut muffins and lime and polenta cake.

Award winning garden designer, Geoff Stonebanks shares his tips and advice on introducing height and structure to the garden.

Driftwood is a garden of three parts, split into several different garden rooms, Geoff Stonebanks takes us on a journey to explore

Most people have childhood memories of parks or gardens, plants or flowers. In Geoff Stonebanks’ garden almost every plant tells a story.

Geoff Stonebanks takes you on an imaginary walk through the garden at Driftwood to understand how each of the 5 senses might help stimulate your visitor experience!

There’s a lot more to making your garden planting and design successful. Geoff Stonebanks offers his hard-earned advice.

Geoff Stonebanks tells us what his garden means to him and how that’s changed since the pandemic.

Geoff Stonebanks tell us about his love of Fuchsias and the varieties he grows at his Driftwood garden.

Geoff Stonebanks shares his festive tips and plants for garden containers.

Geoff Stonebanks explores his love of garden hydrangeas.

Geoff Stonebanks shares his love of agaves, a spectacular group of plants that add drama and structure to his garden.

Geoff Stonebanks selects his standout plants for his garden at Driftwood-by-sea.

Geoff Stonebanks share’s his advice for planting bulbs in pots and containers

Geoff Stonebanks helps you to consider the value of your fences, trellis and walls as valuable vertical surfaces to train your plants?

Make a high tea for a special friend, or bake a cake for a birthday, Geoff Stonebanks shares two of his most popular open garden day recipes

Already a fan of Flower Power, Geoff Stonebanks takes a look at RootBooster and its benefits for his container based garden.

Award winning garden designer Geoff Stonebanks reveals his most asked visitor question and explains why, for him, Flower Power has become indispensable.

Geoff Stonebanks is an instant gardener, because he wants the area he is creating or changing to look like the image he has in his head, instantly

Geoff Stonebanks explains how he uses garden begonias in his award winning garden