Small gardens

Cambridge courtyard garden designed by Colm Joseph Gardens.

Colm Joseph’s small city courtyard garden design in Cambridge

York stone paving slabs

A deceptively simple small garden designed by Sheila Jack

Crag House, Aldeburgh. Designed by Sue Townsend

Stunning small coastal garden in Suffolk designed by Sue Townsend

Suburban garden designed by Tom Massey

Modern small garden ideas

Container display using a mass-planting of daffodils

Inspiration and advice for planting bulbs in pots

roof reservoir

Saving water in garden design

Suburban garden designed by Tom Massey

Modernist hard landscaping in a suburban garden

A small garden designed by Jack Wallington

Colour and lightness in a small family garden

Ula Maria's garden

Ula Maria’s garden of childhood memories

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Garden path ideas: how to design a garden path

Mary Keen’s greenhouse is cleverly positioned to form part of the circuit around the garden; you can admire her collection of pelargoniums by walking right through it. The path here is lined with jewel-coloured dahlias and the tall, luminous-blue Salvia patens ‘Guanajuato’ emerging from clouds of Erigeron annuus.

Inside Mary Keen’s immersive, atmospheric, compact garden

Courtyard garden by Arjan Boekel

Inspiring gardens A forest-like garden in the city

The Millboard boardwalk is laid flush with the reclaimed York stone paved area by the house and they share the same soft, beige tones, for a seamless sense of flow. The vivid blues of Campanula persicifolia and Geranium Rozanne (= ‘Gerwat’) leap out against the rich-green foliage

A small modern meadow garden by Jenny Bloom

A gravel garden designed by Colm Joseph

A modern suburban Suffolk retreat by Colm Joseph

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Reducing plastic in your garden and allotment

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