TG Escapes Blog – Residential
The latest articles from the TG Escapes team. Read on to keep up to date on the latest innovations and stories in the world of modular eco building for residential purposes.
International Dawn Chorus Day
Spring is advancing at full throttle, with trees bursting into leaf and bluebells carpeting our woodland floors, and the birds are feeling perky and chirpy, particularly at dawn! International Dawn Chorus Day is the worldwide celebration of natureās daily miracle....
It’s National Gardening Week
When gardeners garden, it is not just plants that grow, but the gardeners themselves.Ā -Ā Ā Ken Druse This week, from 13th April until 19th April 2015, the RHS will once more be curating the UKās annual campaign to celebrate all things green and marking four years...
It’s the International Day of Happiness – How could you enjoy your garden more all year round?
Today is the International Day of Happiness and also the day that winter is officially over and we welcome spring into our lives again. The daffodils and primroses are taking up the slack as the snowdrops approach the end of their tenure, and woodland floors across...
Easter Serenity in your own Garden Annexe
Sing a song of sixpence A pocket full of rye Many free from (meat, dairy, gluten) varieties Baked in some pies When the pies were opened The littlies start to shout Yuk Iām not eating that While Gramps suggests a clout The aunts were in the dining room Bickering about...
Could a Garden Escape have been good for the heart during half term?
We are nearing the end of National Heart Month, designed to raise awareness of heart disease, its causes and its prevention. Along with poor diet and lack of exercise, one of the primary contributory factors is raised blood pressure. And one of the main culprits...
Beat the Energy Suppliers with an efficient Garden Room
The world oil price has plummeted by more than 50% since last June and wholesale costs to energy suppliers have been slashed. During the years of rising oil prices and costs, retail energy prices were very quick to respond, but are proving woefully sticky on the...
Getting Ready for Spring in the Garden
Day by day, dawn is rising ever earlier and dusk descending a little later. Daylight hours are on the up and if you brave the elements and take a stroll around your garden, you will find that natureās pioneers are already leading the way into spring.Ā Snowdrops are...
Is your New Year Resolution to keep fit?
Amongst the top 50 New Year resolutions are a desire to learn to knit, to break a world record and to have cosmetic surgery. But assuming you are not planning on radical facial reconstruction, followed by a prolonged recovery period during which you attempt to knit...
Happy Christmas
It hardly seems possible that another whole year is almost over, but we are most definitely hurtling towards 2015 with that lightning fast rapidity that the countdown to Christmas always creates. We hope that 2014 has been good to you allā¦we at the Garden Escape have...
Christmas guests are coming! A garden annexe could keep you smiling.
And the goose may well be getting fat, and stress levels are mounting as each new day brings us closer to the festive onslaught. Gifts to buy and wrap; cards to write and post; food and drink to be bought and cooked andā¦.visitors to be accommodated, in every sense of...
National Tree Week 29th November to 7th December 2014
First launched in 1975, National Tree Week is the UKās largest annual tree celebration, always timed to coincide with the beginning of the winter tree planting season. It represents a great opportunity for communities to do something positive for their local tree...
Its Raining Again
Having just returned from an exceptionally soggy walking expedition with the dog (even he had had enough by the end of it!) I thought Iād take a quick look at the long range weather forecasts for this winter and gingerly crossed my fingers in the hope that we are not...