Nicky Haslam reveals the ‘sticky’ garden item that ruined your outdoor space – and what you should use instead

Interior designer and socialite Nicky Haslam has called one garden item that he regards as really tasteless – and they are not your plant choices.

According to the famous pronounced seasoning, the modern, matching furniture sets that ruin outdoor spaces throughout the country.

The Green-Dumbed enthusiastic, whose London-based studio has designed glamorous interiors around the world, believes that today’s slender patio sets look more like airport chairs than something you want in a garden.

“Nothing looks terrible in the winter than furniture with blankets about it,” he said the Telegraph.

Now in the 1980s, Nicky is as stubborn as always when it comes to what is tasteful and what is not – is notorious ‘what Nicky Haslam finds annually’ tea towel every year.

Recent entries include ‘strawberries’, ‘remotely driven lawn mowers’ and ‘music’, but its garden prices are particularly demanding.

Nicky has no time for coordinated outdoor sets or synthetic -looking materials, and instead prefers a more eclectic, characterful approach.

Lloyd loom -woven furniture is in his words ‘certainly too normal’.

Interior designer and socialite Nicky Haslam says that matching garden furniture sets are the only garden item that he regards as really tasteless

His own ideal setup has classic wooden or wrought -iron benches and benches, dressed in thick mattresses, throws and a generous scattering of pillows.

For fabrics, Nicky is in favor of timeless stripes, especially green and white.

He remembers a particularly chic example of Garden Elegance from a visit to Belvoir Castle with the late Socialite Diana Cooper.

There, old reeds were covered with black Chintz pillows with a pattern with oversized red roses – a look that he calls ‘so chic’.

Nicky is also a fan of mixing inner and outdoor elements, although only when they are done with style.

An outer bench in a corridor or trellis on an interior wall can bring charm, but dragging your dining chairs outside is a step too far.

It is a flair for style that he has tightened since his school days. While a student at Eton, Nicky, transformed his studies with Faux Ocelot curtains, cardboard ostrich plumes, artificial grass from a local vegetable control and carriage.

A dramatic photo of James Dean completed the look – so impressive that his caretaker would bring guests to see it after dinner.

The Socialite also said that yellow garden flowers are ‘tasteless’ and lower the respect of your back garden space. Used stock image

Now in the 1980s, Haslam is as stubborn as always when it comes to what is tasteful and what is not – are notorious ‘what Nicky Haslam finds ordinary’ tea towel a year

From Eton Schoolboy to International Designer, he has always had an eye for the fantastic and a sharp tongue for the faux pass.

If your garden furniture came as a matching set, you may want to reconsider.

The Socialite also said that yellow garden flowers are ‘tasteless’ and lower the respect of your back garden space.

And it is not the first time that the designer has been spoken about plant selection.

Nicky has said in the past that he cannot stand red roses in the garden- together with other plants such as Berberis, rhododendrons, sunflowers and conifers.

He also relegated Red Hot Pokers, Aubretia and copper beech to gardening.

Red roses are acceptable when they are picked and displayed in a vase, Haslam added, so that a design concession for the flowers is associated with romance, passion and dedication.

He also emphasized that although plants can help determine the mood in your garden, it is important to consider how they are arranged – not just what kinds of plants you have.

Instead of having your plants grow recklessly in a wild garden that eights ‘pretty boring’, the furniture designer and socialite ordered the recommended to organize them informally in large groups.

Some of his favorite plants include the smelly iris, which bloom all year in Great Britain, white foxes, white violets and the ‘Aster’ White Star ‘of the Stokes.

While Nicky loves white flowers, he recommends that you free from yellow -colored flowers.