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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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House and garden with pond

'Maximum effect, minimum effort'. This Welsh country garden is a masterclass in autumn colour

Building on the work of generations of plantspeople, Elizabeth and Ross Murray have breathed fresh life into Llanover Garden in southeast Wales
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House and garden

You'll wish this Highlands garden with its own wild swimming pool and sauna, designed by Tracy McQue was yours...

In Tracy McQue’s design for a steeply sloping garden in the Highlands, a series of distinct character areas are united by repeating and remixing the planting palette
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House and seating

The elegant Cornish hideaway that was designed on the back of an envelope

Designer Matt Keightley has transformed a small plot of rough grass on the north Cornish coast into an elegant Mediterranean-inspired space for entertaining
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Two people standing in a flower field

From delivering bouquets by bike across London to a regenerative flower farm in Cornwall: living the Petalon dream

Having traded London life for regenerative farming in Cornwall, Florence and James Kennedy are taking their flower company Petalon to new heights
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Garden in the countryside

He commissioned Piet Oudolf’s first UK garden, and now John Coke has a new plot that channels the essence of the Dutch master

Known for commissioning Piet Oudolf’s first UK garden, plantsman John Coke has moved on and created a brand-new, personal garden on the South Downs
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Cottage garden and house

The plant obsessives who have packed their Welsh garden with a host of unusual flowers

From rare hydrangeas to prairie-inspired borders, the Welsh garden of plant obsessives Roger and Jenny Lloyd is packed with floral treasures
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Cottage garden and house

Enter the charming world of the Bloomsbury Group in the romantic, cottage-style garden at Charleston

The gardens of Charleston, once home to painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, and the artistic residence of the Bloomsbury Group, are maintained in the spirit of that age
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Garden tables and chairs

The best beer garden in the country? This award-winning plot with beautiful planting was once a car park

The spirit of hospitality flourishes in designer Tabitha Rigden’s contemporary take on a pub garden at The Plough Shiplake, with a beautifully planted new outdoor space that was previously a car park
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Swimming pond in garden

I design amazing natural swimming ponds for a living, and this is what I learned creating my own

For her own garden, Ellicar, swimming pond designer Sarah Murch has created a wildlife-focused landscape that is at one with nature
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Modern house and garden

‘You’ll never have to water again’ – this drought-proof gravel garden is a cool dream on hot summer days

Designer Matthew Wilson chose colourful, scented, drought-resilient planting for this zero-irrigation hilltop garden in Surrey
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House and cottage garden

A fabulous 15th-century home revived by Ptolemy Dean has a sensitively designed new garden by Tom Stuart-Smith

Landscape architect Tom Stuart-Smith has worked closely with architect Ptolemy Dean to create a garden that unifies a 15th-century house and barn
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House and garden

This is how you make a modern cottage garden: inspiring contemporary update tips from a revamped Cotswolds hideaway

The traditional English country garden gets a contemporary update at this renovated cottage in the Cotswolds, discovers Petra Hoyer Millar.
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A meadow garden

This clever country design is a masterclass in making a garden to soften that just-finished feel

For this Suffolk garden, designer Colm Joseph has created spaces that link the geometry of the new-build house to the surrounding vistas of fields and trees beyond
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Vegetables on table

Forgot crop rotation: polyculture is the new cool easy way to grow your own without weeding or worrying about pests

At Birch Farm in Devon, Joshua Sparkes is growing food in polycultures alongside pests and weeds with great success
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