The quiet beauty of winter sets the stage in this garden, where topiary shapes and the borrowed landscape are the main performers

A good time to visit The Old Rectory in Doynton is as dusk falls on a frosty December evening. Driving in through the gate, you’ll be cheered by the sight of two illuminated Portuguese laurel cylinder

REAL readers' gardens! Putting the garden to bed ...

The garden in winter can often seem like something to be endured rather than enjoyed for gardeners who dash to garden centres at Easter, departing with cars brimful of petunias and bags of compost. Bu

John and Jenny Brett have created an all-year garden design at St Mary’s, combining formal plant structures with colourful insect-friendly perennials, but in winter, when dusted with white and dancing with shadows, the garden shimmers

When garden designers Julie Toll and Ian Kitson moved to Biggerside, a 17th-century farmhouse in Cumbria, they brought with them not just a shared vision, but the combined expertise needed to meld thi