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National Dahlia Collection holder Louise Danks deadheading Dahlia ‘Newquay’ at the Collection’s new Cornish home.

Discover the beautiful National Dahlia Collection and the person who helped save it from disappearing

The National Dahlia Collection has had several homes since its inception in the 1980s, and now, under the care of a dedicated dahlia aficionado, it has been rescued and relocated once more to a new site in Cornwall.
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A garden with purple flowers and grasses

This windswept plot was transformed from a scrappy lawn into an outstanding contemporary garden

Designer Declan Buckley transformed a breezy, exposed garden on an awkward site by cleverly dividing it into rooms with different characters
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Alice Meacham gravel garden Dorset

An airy gravel garden around a modern house in Dorset

For their mid-century modernist home in west Dorset, Vanessa Barlow and Jethro Marshall looked to designer Alice Meacham to create an airy gravel garden that would complement their open plan home.
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Steps leading up to a window looking out onto a drought tolerant garden

You won't believe that this garden is in the Cotswolds, not California

Around a contemporary house in Oxfordshire, designer Matt Keightley has used sculptural planting and stone to create a series of stunning courtyards that look more like California than the Cotswolds
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Oudolf Field at Hauser and Wirth, Somerset

Key plants from Piet Oudolf's field at Hauser and Wirth

The garden at the Hauser and Wirth gallery in Somerset is a planting installation by garden designer Piet Oudolf called the Oudolf Field. Here you'll find 24 of the key plants that make up the stunning perennial meadow garden.
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Knowle House garden

The owners discovered this hidden Arts & Crafts garden (designed by a horticultural legend) and then brought it back from obscurity

Knowle House garden has been restored to its original 1920s Arts and Crafts design, but with a modern planting twist from head gardener Chris Brown
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Coombe Cottage

This revitalised family-friendly front garden was turned from driveway to wildlife haven

Designer Annie Guilfoyle unlocked the potential of the space around this charming 17th-century cottage to create a joyful family garden
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House with seating area out front and green shrubs

This stunning English garden became a private sanctuary in the heart of a valley, with rambling roses and a wildflower meadow

Rachael White has transformed a Cotswold garden to create a tranquil space at one with nature
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Old Rectory Wrestlingworth

Discover this naturalistic, flower-filled garden on an old pony paddock

Jo Hoy’s Bedfordshire garden is testament to her skill in balancing self-seeded natives, prized ornamentals and structural trees and shrubs
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Trebah Garden in Cornwall

This subtropical oasis is a must-visit garden this year

Trebah Garden in Cornwall captivates visitors, new and returning, with its dramatic setting and collection of subtropical plants
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Copyhold Hollow

Discover this woodland-glade fairytale garden with a dream-like feel

Over the past 25 years, Frances Druce has created a Himalayan-inspired garden around her West Sussex house hidden in a woodland glade
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Old Bladbean Stud in Kent

Visit this 20-year passion project garden on a former stud farm, where double mirrored borders have brought visitors to tears

Old Bladbean Stud in Kent is a romantic country garden that has unfolded slowly over 20 years
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Butter Wakefield's East Sussex garden designs

Peek inside this huge East Sussex garden with a pool, zipline, treehouse, wildflower meadow and gravel garden

In this large new country garden, designer Butter Wakefield has blended strong structure with playful planting
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Dowdeswell Court gardens

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.
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An aerial shot of Mounton House in Monmouthshire

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.
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France's Marqueyssac garden on the Dordogne

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.
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View over the lake to Brook House

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.
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House and gardens in winter frost

In my garden the phrase ‘winter is coming’ has become something to relish, not dread

As nurseryman and gardener Adrian Bloom reveals, the gardens at Bressingham in Norfolk develop a whole new dimension in the depths of winter.
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House and gardens

This Scottish garden is the perfect balance of art and nature thanks to its creative owners

Robert and Anna Dalrymple have transformed the gardens around their Scottish farmhouse into a beautifully composed space that balances art with nature.
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House and garden with tree in winter

'The wildlife doesn't care what it looks like, but you should' - your garden can be beautiful and biodiverse

John Little’s experimental garden is a sanctuary for wildlife in winter, when the structure behind its summer abundance is revealed.
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Snowdrops for sale at the Shepton Mallet snowdrop festival

Discover the magical Shepton Mallet Snowdrop Festival

The annual Shepton Mallet Snowdrop Festival in Somerset is the place to be for galanthophiles in February.
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House and garden in winter

An ultra cool new garden designed by planting maestro Piet Oudolf on a former poultry farm

Piet Oudolf has transformed a former poultry farm in Berkshire into an all-season garden of contrasting colours and sculptural forms.
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Garden surrounded by countryside

This is what happens when a garden designer couple with wildly different tastes take on a new home garden

Around their Cumbrian home, designers Julie Toll and Ian Kitson have created a contemporary garden fully embedded in its heritage location.
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Winter garden and house surrounded by countryside

Discover the jobs that keep the gardeners at Sissinghurst busy in winter

Troy Scott Smith, head gardener at Sissinghurst, explains how he and his team prepare the world-famous garden for the year ahead. Photographs: John Campbell
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