Gardens
Find inspiration from gardens of all sizes both in the UK and internationally
Meet Pippa Greenwood – gardening's agony aunt with a fetish for pests and diseases
The plant-health expert on her unexpected journey into television, and a career as gardening’s most dependable agony aunt
Inside Dowdeswell Court, the private gardens of clothing brand Holland Cooper's founder
Around the Neoclassical home of Jade Holland Cooper and Julian Dunkerton, Urquhart & Hunt has designed a garden that works in harmony with a variety of wildlife.
A festival for tulips? Here are the festivals around the world celebrating the arrival of the beautiful spring flower
Discover some of the best tulip festivals to visit for a colourful start to spring. From Amsterdam to London, find a festival near you.
Get a classic garden apron when you join as a member to Gardens Illustrated today
Get a classic garden apron when you join as a member to Gardens Illustrated today
This Californian mini meadow garden is an inspiring sanctuary for a well-known recording artist
Plantsman John Greenlee, the grasses guru, has created a sumptuous new meadow garden with tropical touches for a historic house in Palo Alto.
What's new?
Meet RHS Wisley's rising plant star, Jack Aldridge
Jack Aldridge leads the Alpine and Rock Garden team at RHS Wisley
Watch: How to prune or pollard a smokebush
Discover how to pollard or prune a smoke bush hard in spring in our easy step by step video, to keep it a good size for the garden and so it produces beautiful foliage
Exclusive GI reader event at Mounton House
Experience the magical Edwardian garden in South Wales recently restored by Arne Maynard on an exclusive Gardens Illustrated reader event.
Gardening events and shows in 2026
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
The Moroccan hillside garden preserving the landscape almost obliterated by urban expansion
At Rohuna, writer Umberto Pasti has conjured a remarkable garden from a barren Moroccan hillside, where he wants to conserve the local flora.
Rural
This Arts & Crafts gem in Wales has been newly restored by Arne Maynard
This abandoned Monmouthshire garden has been taken back to its Edwardian heyday by designer Arne Maynard.
Top 10 most romantic gardens to visit with your loved one
Lose your heart in one of the world's most romantic gardens. Garden writer Anna Pavord picks ten of her favourite gardens to visit that will sweep you off your feet.
How a former pig farm became a tranquil garden that's a haven for wildlife
The owners of Am Brook Meadow in Devon have put two decades of hard work into transforming a former pig farm into a tranquil garden.
Meet the gardeners
The new curator at RHS flagship garden Wisley on his passion for plants, people and education
The new curator of RHS Garden Wisley on the pulling power of plants, his passion for education and bringing excitement to gardens. Image by Rachel Warne
"Don't be put off by funky terms or what concrete or cement is": Henry Agg on demystifying gardening
The garden designer and influencer Henry Agg on not being intimidated by jargon, spreading weeds by mistake and why he loves small gardens
"I didn't even like him at first" - how these couples garden together without killing each other
This Valentine's Day, we decided to ask some of horticulture's top duos what it's like to garden together
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 in March
Gardener and plantsman Keith Wiley shares his favourite gardens to visit in March.
20 new gardens to visit in 2026 - the best new spaces in the UK and beyond
Discover brand-new gardens and redesigned plots across the UK and beyond. Here are the gardens to put on your bucket list in 2026.
The best places to propose: pop the question in a garden
Thinking of proposing to your beloved? Why not do it in style and pull off the perfect marriage proposal in one of our pick of beautiful garden venues
Gardens of the world
Worldwide gardens you need to see
'It's like living inside a painting'. Piet Oudolf's dreamy Nantucket island garden
For this Nantucket island hideaway, the cedar-shingled buildings are nestled around a courtyard with an archetypal meadow by Piet Oudolf
We bought an abandoned olive grove and brought it back to life with a meadow-style garden of wildflowers
A hillside garden in southern Italy with a distinctly Mediterranean planting palette is alive with the echoes of civilisations past
There’s no lawn or ugly play kit but my kids still love our garden: how to make yours both family friendly and beautiful
Dutch garden and landscape designer Arjan Boekel has transformed his tiny town garden in the Netherlands into a miniature woodland glade
Urban gardens
Amazing gardens from towns and cities
This back-to-front garden in the Cotswolds flips the expected to great effect
Emily Crowley-Wroe has used her own front garden in the Cotswolds to trial design and planting ideas.
The perfect solution for a long, thin, sloping garden that the whole family can enjoy
Over 20 years, garden designer Emily Erlam has nurtured and edited the plants in her sloping city garden to create an intriguing, immersive space. She explains how.
This 1960s home has been transformed by a contemporary chic garden makeover
For her own garden, designer Lucy Willcox has transformed a sloping site, blending the wildness of a neighbouring common with the sharp lines of her 1960s home.