Big gardens

Internet in the garden

How to boost Wi-Fi and get the Internet in your garden

Learn how to lay a hedge using traditional craftsmanship and hedge laying skills.

How to lay a hedge

Marian Boswell's layered border planting plan

Garden border ideas How to create a mixed border planting plan

Stavordale Priory

Design Solutions: Topiary

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

What is no dig gardening?

An illustration of the soil food chain from organic matter and bacteria to animals

What is soil?

Monique Gudgeon lakeside sculpture garden

Striking form at a sculptural winter garden

The zestful planting of the main borders of the garden seems to be a continuum of colourful plants but they are bisected by grass paths. In the foreground the punchy, red flowers of Monarda ‘Jacob Cline’ float around the purple flowers of Salvia nemorosa ‘Amethyst’.

Layered perennial planting in a Cheshire garden

Doddington Place

Gardens to visit

Historic gardens to visit

Rousham. Photo: Andrew Lawson

Rousham: England’s most influential garden?

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Hard and soft palettes in a Californian garden

Making the most of the good drainage provided by the steep bank beneath the wall, Jo has introduced a thyme meadow that tumbles down into the main meadow mix from Emorsgate Seeds, which is based down the road from Jo’s farmhouse. The tall spires of Verbascum thapsus add vertical accents that link to the tower of the 14th-century village church beyond.

Tips for an idyllic managed meadow garden

Sissinghurst’s Delos garden has been transformed into a Mediterranean-style space in line with the original vision. Grecian altars and a Mediterranean kermes oak are placed along the main walkway

Inside Sissinghurst’s Mediterranean-inspired Delos garden

The sheltered Gravel Garden where owners Nick and Louise Killen can sit among mounds of Nepeta ‘Six Hills Giant’ and the floating heads of Cenolophium denudatum and enjoy a view to the church where they married. The stone Farrowing House is now Nick’s office.

Creating the perfect Somerset family garden

At Upper Sydling in Dorset the landscape beyond is as much a part of the garden as the flowers within it. Here in the cutting garden, the view is framed by a floriferous mass of rambling roses, including the pretty pink Rosa ‘May Queen’, which entwine their flowering tentacles through, around and over the balustrade of ageing green oak.

Creating the perfect romantic rose garden