Big gardens

With no hedges or boundary trees, the garden is open to the surrounding landscape and feels very much part of it, especially as the fluid planting has been designed to give the romantic, gauzy feel of a wildflower meadow but with a longer season of interest and a greater variety of plant type and form. Here, Sisyrinchium striatum, Lupinus ‘Noble Maiden’ and Phlomis russeliana catch the eye.

Informal planting for an idyllic Cotswold garden

best climbing plants for gardens - Solanum crispum album

30 of the best climbing plants

The heart of the garden is an ‘oasis’ formed by an enlarged pool with associated viewing deck

Explore a Californian oasis garden

Growing pumpkins: our guide to planting pumpkins

How to grow pumpkins and squashes

Helleborus orientalis 'Yellow Lady'

How to grow hellebores for colour over winter

Sassafras albidum sapling, a great autumn tree

Which autumn trees to have in your garden

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Reducing plastic in your garden

No-dig gardener Charles Dowding in his quarter-acre organic vegetable garden in Somerset

What is no dig gardening?

Digitalis pupurea 'Gloxinioides'

The best plants for a cottage garden

Limestone steps are a solution to coping with slopes. Wide steps create an elegant descent down a sloping garden

How to cope with a sloping garden

Cornus florida 'Cherokee Chief'

The best flowering dogwoods

Poppies in a meadow

Expert tips for designing a meadow

Magnolia 'Yellow Fever'

The best yellow magnolias for gardens of all sizes

Digitalis at The Botanic Nursery (June 2016)

Foxgloves for colour and structure

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5 ways to create an ecological wildlife haven