Garden design

Gothic Roof Fruit Cage

15 stylish fruit cages for keeping your produce protected

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

How to lay a hedge

Lawn grass by Jonas Weckschmied © Unsplash

Soft landscaping

Best grass seed for your garden

Marian Boswell's layered border planting plan

Garden border ideas How to create a mixed border planting plan

GILLTerrariums-326755

How to plant a terrarium

Stavordale Priory

Design Solutions: Topiary

Bespoke Victorian Lodge with double porch, best porch greenhouses, best victorian greenhouses

Garden Equipment

17 Victorian greenhouses and porch glasshouses

Utrecht garden designed by Erik Funneman

A modern courtyard garden with a living wall in Utrecht

Tulipa ‘Estella Rijnveld’ One of the best of the Parrot tulips, the petals exuberantly ruffled in red and white. Raised in the Netherlands in 1954 by Dr de Mol and named after his wife. Flowers in May. 55cm. RHS H6, USDA 3a-8b.

Gardens to visit

Best tulips to plant: 24 from Belcombe Court

Villa Pisani Scalabrin

Inspiring gardens Villa Pisani Bolognesi Scalabrin's wildflower meadow

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?

Blackland House

Polly Nicholson’s tulip-filled walled garden

Green wall in Utrecht, designed by Erik Funneman. © Sietske de Vries

How to create a living wall

A photograph of a garden

Where garden designers buy their plants