How to make a garden without spending a fortune.

Buy small plants.

Let the garden grow them for you.

Learn to make more plants.

Seeds, cuttings and divisions cost next to nothing.

Let some plants do it themselves.

Self-seeders are free plants.

Spend less on hard landscaping.

A path doesn’t have to cost thousands.

Buy bare-root if you can.

Especially trees, roses and hedging.

Re-use old things.

Pots and furniture aren’t better because they’re new.

Plant things that get bigger.

Shrubs fill a lot of garden for one purchase.

The cheapest ingredient is time.

Don’t try to buy a finished garden.

Grow one instead.