Green inspiration blog

Your garden is a wonderful place for you to relax. Once you've created it, you'll want to enjoy all its cheerful colours as quickly as possible, so that you can spend the whole summer enjoying the flowers and plants that...

A garden with allure Cosy seating areas, scintillating views and lush flower beds full of bright and colourful roses, and lots of classics: that’s the ‘English Garden’! If you enjoy the romantic and natural atmosphere of the English cottage garden,...

The ideal time to start your (first) vegetable garden is in the spring. The sun is starting to shine again and your vegetables, fruit and herbs just love that. Planting in the spring will yield a harvest as early as...

What could be better than enjoying your own home-grown vegetables and fruit! The good news is that it's easier than you think. Thinking about a vegetable garden often brings a glass cabinet in the garden to mind, but it's not...

Hydrangea arborescens Smooth hydrangea (hydrangea arborescens) flowers on this year’s wood. The buds grow again every spring so you need to prune a hydrangea arborescens (the smooth hydrangea) in March, as soon as there is no longer any chance of...

Hydrangea anomala A climbing hydrangea (hydrangea anomala) flowers on old wood. That is to say, flowers will only grow on branches formed in the previous year. This means that if you prune new shoots, you will also be pruning next...

Some like a subtle hint of green, some like green galore — but for us at Bakker, bigger and greener is always best. Every room in a house should be transformed into an urban jungle. After all, you can never...

There's nothing like fully unwinding in a spa every now and then. A detox in the sauna, a stress-reducing massage followed by a refreshing dip in the pool. How much nicer would it be to have these treatments in your...