Riding to the rescue

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

Buying a dilapidated cottage in a bankruptcy sale led Kirstin Eriksson to fulfil her dream of country living and inspired a change of career, too

Tucked into a corner of the leafy and fertile North Shropshire countryside, the garden at Goldstone Hall Hotel feels far removed from the tumult of modern life. Wrapped in the rolling landscape, its a

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

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