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Large-scale planting, cottage gardens and country escapes
A long, gravel path follows the line of an old granite wall and a campana urn provides a focal point and full stop. The planting is a rich mixture of bedding, perennials and shrubs. Trees ‘borrowed’ from neighbouring gardens frame the space and link it with the landscape.
Rural

Mixing exotics and old favourites in a gardener’s garden

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.
Rural

Inside Mary Keen’s immersive, atmospheric, compact garden

Making the most of the good drainage provided by the steep bank beneath the wall, Jo has introduced a thyme meadow that tumbles down into the main meadow mix from Emorsgate Seeds, which is based down the road from Jo’s farmhouse. The tall spires of Verbascum thapsus add vertical accents that link to the tower of the 14th-century village church beyond.
Rural

Tips for an idyllic managed meadow garden

General views of The Ditch carpeted with snowdrops
Gardens to visit

Margery Fish’s remarkable snowdrops at East Lambrook Manor

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Discover an ecological garden of perennials and vegetables

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International

A perennial garden around a modernist house in Australia

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Jimi Blake’s borders at Hunting Brook Gardens in Ireland

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Urban

Rooftop hideaways, urban gardens and small city retreats
Prolific design duo Harris Bugg have created an exquisite slice of urban meadow in a wildlife-friendly garden in north London. Words Kendra Wilson. Photography Jason Ingram.
Urban

Explore a wildlife-friendly meets urban London garden

The UK’s champion of guerilla gardening, Richard Reynolds, began greening the streets around his London home in 2004, and is the author of On Guerrilla Gardening: A Handbook for Gardening without Boundaries
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What is community gardening?

The layered planting in the large bed obscures the seating area from view. A path, softened by mats of Ophiopogon planiscapus, Soleirolia soleirolii and Viola hederacea, slows down the journey to the end of the garden
Small gardens

How to create a Japanese-inspired small garden

Juergen Teller's studio garden
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Fashion photographer Juergen Teller's studio garden

A garden with plants and flowers
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Five lessons for a city space

Harriet Farlam and Ben Chandler's garden
Small gardens

Two beautiful small gardens

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A garden fit for a modernist house

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International

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The bright, white heads of Agapanthus praecox ‘Albiflorus’ look sensational beneath a royal palm, Roystonea regia, while mature pines, Pinus pinea, frame the view out to the Mediterranean. The formal design of this entrance garden, which was laid out in the 1960s, has been refined by replanting the agapanthus beds, which had become congested, and refreshing the soil. Low box edging was replaced with more drought- tolerant Myrsine africana.
International

Grand designs for a multi-levelled garden

Beautiful show flowers
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The oldest and largest indoor flower show in the world: The Philadelphia Flower Show

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Meet the gardeners

Meet the people behind the gardens
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Profile: Biologist and author Dave Goulson

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Gardening Talent: Meet Lucy Hutchings of SheGrowsVeg

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Gardening Talent – Ellie Pay

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Profile: Gill Hodgson of Flowers from the Farm

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