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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.
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.
'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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Discover the magical Shepton Mallet Snowdrop Festival
The annual Shepton Mallet Snowdrop Festival in Somerset is the place to be for galanthophiles in February.
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.
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.
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
'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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
‘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
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
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.
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
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
This stylish modern country garden around a listed farmhouse in Dorset is the rural idyll of your dreams
Collaboration between client and designer has resulted in this beautifully curated garden, which exudes a bucolic calm and sits in harmony with the ancient Dorset countryside
The quintessential English flower garden in May, with dripping wisteria, irises and a stunning view
The owners of this charming country garden in Somerset added their own twist to its lush, terraced slopes with romantic, deer-proof planting for early summer.
“It’s evolved into a giant birdhide”- This modernist house is surrounded by a magical wildlife garden
Frothy perennials, lacy ferns and drifts of native wildflowers create gentle waves in this wildlife-friendly garden where water is key