Gardens
Find inspiration from gardens of all sizes both in the UK and internationally
Gardening events and shows in 2025
All the big names in one place. Here's our guide to the gardening calendar's biggest and best gardening events for the year ahead
This secret garden of London’s Brutalist icon is open to all 24 hours, and the perfect example of a successful public planting scheme
As a new phase of planting begins, Professor Nigel Dunnett looks at how the iconic public gardens he created at The Barbican Estate in London have evolved over the past decade
Dr James Compton: ‘I am fundamentally lazy and put off gardening chores’
Our resident botanist Dr James Compton talks about his new collaboration with Hans Walter Lack and Martin Callmander
POV: You’ve inherited an historic English hall with two moats and incredible gardens – now what?
Once home to garden designer Xa Tollemache, Helmingham Hall is now under the care of a new generation of Tollemaches and is as glorious as ever, especially in winter when its bones are laid bare.
Words: Chris Young, Photographs: Richard Bloom
Isn’t it ironic: the scented sweet-pea breeder who lost his sense of smell (and has to employ a ‘sniffer’)
The sweet pea and dahlia breeder on his early love of breeding, the excitement of seeing dahlias in the wild and finding the missing slice of the sweet pea colour spectrum
What's new?
Everything you need to know about Alan Titchmarsh's Gardening Club
Discover all about Alan Titchmarsh's Gardening Club, the new season that focuses on gardening on ITV1
These beautiful fritillaries are perfect for spring flower displays: here's how to grow them and the most striking to plant
Fritillaries come in many forms, from the dainty and intriguing to the dramatic and bold.
32 top women garden designers working in the UK today
To mark International Women's Day, we round up some of the top women garden designers working in the UK today
Who is Henry Agg? Meet the new presenter of Alan Titchmarsh's Gardening Club
Garden designer and influencer Henry Agg is a fresh face on the daytime gardening show - here's all you need to know about him
50 invaluable plants for the garden as chosen by a royal garden designer
Landscape designer Jinny Blom picks the 50 plants she loves the most, from first loves, to flowers great for a pot
Rural
You’re going to have to change how you garden, advises head of one of England’s top flower gardens, and it’s all down to climate change
The climate crisis is affecting us all. Head gardener Troy Scott Smith outlines the challenges he faces and explains how he is now working differently.
Photographs: John Campbell
The English country town where everyone goes completely snowdrop mad each February
The annual Shepton Mallet Snowdrop Festival in Somerset is the place to be for galanthophiles in February.
Rewild yourself and get back in touch with nature at this Somerset garden
Deep in the Somerset countryside, a regenerative farm run on permaculture principles seeks to cultivate and restore the health of people and the planet
Meet the gardeners
On the front line of climate change: meet flower farmer Roisin Taylor
Flower farmer Roisin is owner of Verde Flower Co, based in Newcastle-Upon- Tyne, and is currently establishing the British Cut Flower Association.
Alan Titchmarsh to launch TikTok and YouTube channel: Gardening with Alan Titchmarsh
Discover the new gardening channel being launched by horticulturalist Alan Titchmarsh
Meet French garden designer Gilles Clément
The enigmatic French designer, botanist, entomologist, writer and gardener on working with rather than against nature and making room for moles.
Gardens to visit
Visiting a beautiful garden can be a wholly enriching experience. The benefits of visiting a garden – from mental health right through to exercise – are huge, and garden days out are perfect ways to have fun on your own, or as an entire family.
Regardless of how, and whoever you visit with, we have a host of suggestions of which gardens to visit, from gardens for the season, through to the gardens that are in full bloom and at their best each month. We have collated lists of the best gardens to visit with the help of our experts and many years of visiting gardens all around the UK, and beyond. We have gardens organised by theme, days out and local area, so you should find something for wherever you are and whatever garden experience you are looking for.
Enjoy our comprehensive guide to the best gardens to visit in the UK.
Beautiful gardens with daffodils and spring displays - gardens to visit that will look great this month
Gardener and plantsman Keith Wiley shares his favourite gardens to visit in March.
Half term | Garden days out with the kids
Garden days out with the kids are the perfect way to spend half term holidays and more
16 gardens from Monty Don's British Gardens that you can visit too
Enjoyed Monty Don's recent TV series on great British gardens? Many of the ones he visited are also open to the public. Here we round up some of the best that you can visit too
Gardens of the world
Worldwide gardens you need to see
I eschew drought-tolerant planting and water my lush, verdant Mediterranean garden
For his own Mediterranean garden, designer Maurizio Usai has gone against the trend for drought-tolerant planting and created a lush, green natural oasis.
Escape to a dreamy new resort on the Sardinian coast with a beautiful wild garden
Planting designer Marco Scano’s resilient and sensitive scheme for the garden of a new holiday resort in Sardinia works in harmony with the local landscape and native planting.
Like Mediterranean gardens? Here are 15 Mediterranean garden ideas to inspire you
Looking for Mediterranean garden inspiration for you own space? We round up some of the most remarkable Mediterranean gardens
Urban gardens
Amazing gardens from towns and cities
This tiny city garden was transformed into a marvellous mini woodland glade with nine trees and designer touches
From a small, square, city plot, Stefano Marinaz has created a luscious, multi-textured garden brimming with interest and life.
A zesty tangerine-coloured roof top garden in London designed by Nigel Dunnett
On the edge of one of London’s busiest roundabouts, Nigel Dunnett has created exciting combinations of drought-tolerant plants for a roof garden that is as unexpected as it is joyful. Words: Natasha Goodfellow, Photographs: Alister Thorpe
A zero waste garden: this space was completely transformed, without sending anything to landfill
Designer Miria Harris gave herself the challenge of a no-skip, zero-waste project, giving away, recycling or reusing everything in this back garden before transforming it into a space her client could love.
Words: Zia Allaway, Photographs: Rachel Warne