Purple promise

Even if you’re an experienced gardener, gardening seems to be becoming more and more challenging these days as we grapple with unpredictable weather turning the usual seasonal timetable on its head an

There’s nothing better than throwing all your ingredients into a slow cooker in the morning and coming back to a delicious readymade dinner. These ideas from chef Poppy O’Toole couldn’t be easier

The UK has long had a love for Japanese design, but it’s an obsession that’s set to grow, as new design names and artisans increase their inf luence

Award-winning landscape designer Jinny Blom set up her studio in 2000 and has since designed many beautiful, thoughtful gardens, both large and small, around the world. An accomplished plantswoman, sh

If you’re planning a spring makeover, a bright idea is to harness the interior designer’s trick of the trade. ‘A moodboard is a board or surface that contains a mixture of paint and material samples,

The appeal of Britain’s countryside owes much to our tradition of creating and preserving beautiful houses and gardens. Today, that tradition is as strong as it has ever been, thanks to the knowledge, dedication and creativity of the architects, interior designers, garden designers and craftspeople described on the following pages