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The Millboard boardwalk is laid flush with the reclaimed York stone paved area by the house and they share the same soft, beige tones, for a seamless sense of flow. The vivid blues of Campanula persicifolia and Geranium Rozanne (= ‘Gerwat’) leap out against the rich-green foliage

A small modern meadow garden by Jenny Bloom

A gravel garden designed by Colm Joseph

A modern suburban Suffolk retreat by Colm Joseph

White colour palette in the garden

How to create a luminous oasis in a small modern garden

George Cullis garden

A space revived: a modern small courtyard garden in London

The Cambridge Mosque - Urquhart & Hunt Landscape Architects

Inspiring gardens At Europe's first eco-mosque

Flora Grubb's California garden

A lush but drought-tolerant garden in California

Harris Bugg Studio temporary garden for the Berlin Film Festival

Harris Bugg Studio’s temporary garden at the Berlin Film Festival

Tom Stuart-Smith Jellico Gardens

Tom Stuart-Smith’s Jellicoe Gardens in King’s Cross

The Grasslands Garden at the Horniman Museum, London. Designed by Dr James Hitchmough

16 key plants from the Horniman gardens

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.

How to create a wildlife-friendly modern garden in the city

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

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

How to create a Japanese-inspired modern small garden

The deep beds are crammed with a complex tapestry of perennial interest, with an emphasis on foliage that ranges from the fresh, grassy growth of Hakonechloa macra to the deep-plum leaves of Cercis canadensis ‘Forest Pansy’.

Planting for a dry and shady urban garden

Designer Emily Erlam has created a gentle journey along a plum-coloured brick path that winds its way via intimate seating areas among a mass of evergreens and shrubby trees underplanted with perennials, grasses and bulbs.

How to create a modern minimalist garden

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Inside Andy Sturgeon's modern coastal garden