“the garden has been a really great creative thing for me”

A meeting at a Royal Horticultural Society show in the sumptuous surroundings of Chatsworth House in Derbyshire brought together garden designer Phil Hirst and garden owners Alan and Mandy Peel, who w

As the sun rises over Mollan House in Thornhill, Iain Howieson is already out in the three-acre garden he shares with his wife Ruth. For an hour or so each day he wanders the paths that wind through t

This artist’s garden is a stunning composition of colour and form, envisaged in a series of distinct ‘rooms’ that draw you in to explore and enjoy the outside space

Natural perennial planting, with light-diffusing grasses and pools of burnished colour, has elevated a relaxed Sussex farmhouse plot

Grove Ley garden, Somerton, Somerset The home of Dr and Mrs Michael Horder

Mellow September sunshine filters through the slopes and terraces of the gardens at Iford Manor, painting the curated collection of plants, statuary and ornate details with a warm golden glow. Buttery