Garden design

Vita Sackville-West

Inspiring female garden designers in British history

Shed of the Year 2014, Allotment Rooftop

Shed of the Year 2020 competition is launched

A small copper butterfly taking a drink of nectar from a thistle head flower, summer days.

How to attract wildlife into the garden

Wheelbarrow in sunny formal garden

How to employ a gardener

detail of bee or honeybee in Latin Apis Mellifera, european or western honey bee sitting on the violet or blue flower

12 best plant for bees and other insects

Paterre approach at Wentworth estate garden in surrey

An elegant parterre garden combined with evergreen structure

Walled Garden at Clumber Park

How are gardeners adapting to climate change?

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Gypsophila: a gorgeous display with gypsophilia

Garden Designer Jinny Blom's own garden in Brockley London, June 2015 UK

10 ideas to improve your garden

aa Jekka's border

Plant a herb border: download our designer plan

Garden designer Sarah Price spring border plan

Designer planting plan for spring border

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

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Planting ideas for summer containers

General views of The Ditch carpeted with snowdrops

Gardens to visit

Margery Fish’s remarkable snowdrops at East Lambrook Manor

Garden History new new. Credit Garden Museum

Alys Fowler’s favourite vegetable seed catalogues